Mac Mini upgrade, is this possible?
Hi All,
I have 2011 2.3 i5 Mac Mini with 4gb ram and 500 gb memory. I want to do a ram upgrade to it. I'm currently looking at the ram upgrades sold by crucial..I'm wondering since my mac mini has 2 slots can i install one with an 8gb drive and the other with a 2gb drive so i can have a total of 10gb? is it possible? I think it is possible, but i am not too sure. Should my mac be a little faster with the upgrade? I only plan on using it for programming, listening to music, I like to keep open alot of tabs, and i also plan on running programs like VirtualBox. I feel like 4gb is not enough anymore.
Also, i heard it's better, for example, to have 2 slots filled with 4gb drives instead of just 1 slide with just 8gb. Is there a difference?
Any answers would be appriecated.
Thank you,
Jim
Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9)