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Q: Mavericks upgrade

Hello,      I have an iMac 10.6.8 and would like to know if I can upgrade to Mavericks.   I clicked on the apple "about this Mac" and can't figure out how much ram or space I have it just says memory 1 GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM.  What does that mean?

 

Thank you,

Susan

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Oct 5, 2014 12:09 PM

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  • by K Shaffer,

    K Shaffer K Shaffer Oct 9, 2014 12:57 PM in response to minicolleen
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    Oct 9, 2014 12:57 PM in response to minicolleen

    As mentioned, total RAM for Core2Duo early intel-based iMac 17" - 20" is 3GB,

    that means one - 2GB chip in one slot, and one- 1GB chip in that other, per

    the relatively easy instructions noted in the page I'd linked that has pictures.

     

    •Maximum Memory    3.0 GB (4.0 GB can be installed, only 3.0 GB will be addressed)

    •Memory Slots    2 - 200-pin PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 SO-DIMM


    from http://mactracker.ca -- a database download free app to see most Apple specs

     

    Or for convenience sake, two - 2GB chips can be installed, that may not be seen

    as more than 3GB by the computer, BUT data speed may still be a tiny bit faster.

     

    (Hopefully your applications won't balk at Lion 10.7.5, if any happened to be

    originally written for PowerPC (non-Intel) and thus required 10.6.8 & before,

    as those would no longer be supported after Snow Leopard, w/o rosetta.)

     

    You should have been able to use  menu> about this mac> and page link

    to 'How to Identify your iMac' and came up with the iMac model identifier 5.1.

     

    Anyway, now you know and when you take the computer in to a tech for them

    to upgrade RAM (since you appear reluctant to look deeper) note they also

    will lookup the iMac in their database, to match whatever brand RAM in stock.

     

    In any event...

    Good luck & happy computing!

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