Installing memory + Imac

[mritalian1210]

After updating to Leopard my Intel-based Imac seems a little slow and sluggish so I decided to add some memory. As of now I have two 512s. After chatting with an Apple rep, on their website (very helpful and pretty cool) He recommended me buying two 1gb. Before I buy it, I was just wondering how easy/difficult this will be? Thanks

[IntheNet]

After updating to Leopard my Intel-based Imac seems a little slow and sluggish so I decided to add some memory. As of now I have two 512s. After chatting with an Apple rep, on their website (very helpful and pretty cool) He recommended me buying two 1gb. Before I buy it, I was just wondering how easy/difficult this will be? Thanks

mritalian: Apple's instructions here (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303084)... the new iMac's are a little more difficult for adding memory chips due to their all-in-one case. The only tool you'll need is a Phillips Screwdriver and patience!!! Photos illustrate the tricky parts. Most Apple stores will do this for you at Genius bar if you have time to make appointment. Note, simply adding memory will not by itself make it a speed demon; it will certainly help but chip speed limits processing... the new iMacs are very fast anyway... what "slow and sluggish" ops do you need more speed for? I have one of the new iMacs (24"/2.8GHz) in my office and it is very fast (superfast in my view) anyway... it burns through Photoshop and Illustrator tasks...You may wish to re-install Leopard and see if perhaps it wasn't installed correctly... that alone may help...Good luck anyway on 1GB upgrade...

[Sachsen]

I have an Intel iMac (early 2006 - one of the white ones, not the new aluminum ones.) I added a memory card to mine and it was extremely easy. Just follow the instructions on that link above and you'll be fine.

I recommend dealram (http://dealnews.com/memory/) for finding the best price on memory.

[mritalian1210]

Note, simply adding memory will not by itself make it a speed demon; it will certainly help but chip speed limits processing... the new iMacs are very fast anyway... what "slow and sluggish" ops do you need more speed for?

I have a widget that says how much of my memory is being used. Right now for example I am running Safari, Ichat, Itunes, and Azureus and it says I'm using over 75%. My hard-drive is less than half full (36%), so I really think most of the problem lies on my lack of memory.

[MalboroDude]

yeah, get the ram upgrade should be good.

Also try "Ifreemem", which is a little applicaton that helps you allocate the memory better as systems leave some of the memory as "inactive", and so this program turns that "inactive memory" into free memory so that you run your system with the max amount of ram.

[Daniel from Montréal]

Bumped my G5 from 1GB to 2GB last month: easy as pie.