My IMac is a few years old and is currently running 10.6.8. I'm unable to upgrade the operating system beacause I don't have enough memory (only 1GB). Is there a way to purchase/add additional memory to this computer or do I have to purchase a whole new one? I have other computers and IPads in the house and this IMac can't connect to the the cloud and I really want it to. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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You can install more RAM. Open > About this Mac > More Info, and copy here "Model Identifier", so we can know how much memory you can install in the iMac.
You can buy memory from OWC or Crucial > http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/iMac I recommend you to install as much memory as you can, depending on the OS X version you can install. For example, Mountain Lion works properly with more memory
Hi Stephanie,
Adding to Mende1's advice, you need at the minimum Lion 7.2 and preferably Mountain Lion for iCloud. Check your machine to see what you can upgrade to.
To upgrade past Snow Leopard. For Mountain Lion, the minimum specs are as follows ...technical specification
You can then go directly from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion via the App Store, providing you have met those specs.
Depending on your year and model iMac, this may not be a good choice to do.
Some older IMac models can only take from 2- 4 GBs of RAM. With only 4 GBs of RAM your iMac WILL feel a lot more sluggish as the newer versions of OS X ( OS X 10.7, 10.8 and the upcoming 10.9 ) use more computer resources like CPU, GPU and RAM just for the running of the OS, alone! You running other applications along with the OS and things will definitely start feeling slow and sluggish.
You'll have to weigh that out the possibilty with updating your OS X version just to be able to "connect and store data to the cloud" (which is just a stupid metaphor, IMO, of saying you're storing your data to remote network servers somewhere else in the country), that you maybe slowing down your iMac's overall performance by doing so.
I, personally, have no interest of storing all of my personal and privatd data to some unknown and random network server farm.
Personally, I think this Cloud Conputing thing/fad is just another way of gaining and controlling more peoples’/users’ personal computing data/information and tracking computing habits and online activities.
Thanks....
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
You have an Early 2008 iMac, that supports 6 GB of memory. You can buy more RAM at OWC or Crucial > http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/iMac/Intel_Core_2_Duo_PC2-6400
Perfect...thank you. Now...how do I install it? Can I do it myself?
You can install RAM yourself > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1423?viewlocale=en_US
StephanieDa wrote:
Perfect...thank you. Now...how do I install it? Can I do it myself?
Watch this video:
can you add memory to an imac
