Originally Posted by murphy
512 MB may or may not be enough for you. More RAM is always better. Do NOT buy any additional RAM from Apple, though. It is way overpriced. Buy the machine with the base 512MB. If you find the machine swapping alot, you can always buy a stick from a retailer. Adding RAM to the machine is dead easy. The instructions are in the manual. Macs can be picky about RAM, but a stick from a good manufacturer (Corsair, Crucial, Viking, etc.) will work fine, and be lots cheaper than Apple.
Thanks for the reply murphy -- one question on memory though: I was looking at the upgraded 1GB of memory but there are two choices:
2 DIMMs and 1DIMMs. I imagine that the more expensive of the two (2DIMMs) is better just because it costs more but besides that I'm totally miffed on what it means.
If you find the machine swapping alot, you can always buy a stick from a retailer.
What do you mean by swapping?
Is the .mac membership worth the $69? (i believe it's on sale for that price from $99 untill the 21st of may or so...)
On a side note since I seem to be leaning towords the Mac (unless Ptravel can come in and push me to the PC side before I purchase the system whcih will probably be tomorrow sometime), my whole music library is on my PC and I'm thinking of a buying a iPod mini -- obviously if I want to sync it up with my mac i'll have to transfer my songs from the PC to the Mac. Is there a faster way to do that besides burning them onto a plethora of cd's? Will it be safe to do so? I wish I could just put them onto the iPod straight from the pc and manage it from the Mac but I know that's impossible.