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With the student loan company about to grace my bank account with several thousand pounds I'v been thinking about upgrading the ram on my 24" 3.06ghz core 2 duo imac.
I'm currently running just the standard 2gb.
Crucial.com suggest (as do most sources on tinterweb) that the max I can put in is 4gb (2x 2gb) http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listparts.aspx?model=iMac%203.06GHz%20Intel%20Core%202%20Duo%20%2824-inch%29&pl=iMac&cat=RAM
but when I go on the Apple store and go through selecting what model of imac I have there is an 8gb option. (2x4gb) http://store.apple.com/uk/memorymodel/ME_IMAC_AL_24_G3
Problem is the Apple store want almost £500 for the 8gb option whereas Crucial only want £65 for 4gb.
The crucial memory seems to be pc2-6400 ddr 2 whereas the apple stuff is pc3-8500 ddr 3, not that I have a clue what any of that means.
I found this http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT2KIT51272BB1067Q on the crucial site which seems to be the same as the Apple store are selling but for less than half the price.
Common sense suggests I could buy that and run it safely but thought I'd check if anyone here had an opinion 1st.
Btw, I use my mac for photography so I'm processing reasonably large (40 odd mb from the camera) images quite often a few at a time, with layers etc I regularly have finished images sitting around 2-300mb.
Is 8gb ram gonna be overkill for this?