I am reminded that we found some bad ram that we tested as “good” 6 months ago when purchased. Used RAM can be a very good deal if purchased from a good seller, as it has been “run in” for a good while and is tested prior to the sale. New memory is often flakey, so buy from a good reseller with a generous return policy, and test it well (using several passes) with a program like MemTest86. Most of the leading RAM manufactures (such as Crutial) will show the real amount you can safely upgrade to. For example, Apple claims the Mac Mini mid-2011 units can only be upgraded to 8GB of RAM, when in fact, 16GB is the actual upper limit. I hope this helps you speed up your Mac, Eric, it’s a great machine and well worth the effort to shine her up a bit to make you happy! Posted in Blog PostsĪnother tidbit is that Apple (and others) often show a artificially low limit for the amount of RAM a given unit can be upgraded to. Every time I’ve done this my Mac is sooooo much faster, even one that’s only a year or two old will benefit dramatically from a nuke and pave. ![]() I haven’t given you every single step here I’m assuming you know enough to fill in the blanks, but I hope this outline helps you to understand the basic steps of doing a nuke and pave. I’ve tried to do this by deleting applications I don’t need but I only get rid of a half dozen, but if I put back what I do use, I end up cutting the number in half! This is a long process but it’s kind of fun to figure out what you really need. Install it from scratch from a fresh download from the Internet too, so you know you have the newest and coolest version. My recommendation is to wait until you NEED an application to install it.
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