dimm & ram

[igotdamaged]

Hello,

I am planning to buy a new I-Mac from the apple store, and I would like to have 1GB of RAM installed on the system.

The website gives 2 options for achieving this:

• 1GB DDR400 SDRAM - 2 DIMMs
• 1GB DDR400 SDRAM - 1 DIMM

Apparently, these both offer the same result, but the second option costs �150 more.

Why is this, and what difference would I notice between the 2 set-ups?

[Ralph]

The first option has 2 x 512MB DIMM's (dual in-line memory modules) whereas the second has a single stick of 1GB. If the motherboard only has two memory sockets and you go for option 1, upgrading to 2GB ram means you are going to have to throw away the two sticks that are already there and buy 2 x 1GB sticks - expensive. This doesn't happen with option 2, but really 1GB is going to be loads even if you are editing video, 3D modelling, playing the latest games, etc.... If it were me, I'd go for option 1 and spend �150 on something nice because I might deserve it!

[Mattk]

apart from the look,why would you want a mac ?

in a like-for-like bench test,pc beat mac on everything apart from ease of set up and buying in the 1st place !

it even beat it on gfx package processing which the mac is supposed to be best for.

 

[Bleriot]

On the issue of Macs. I run both and I don't know why, but the Mac has a far lighter and more precise touch when doing image manipulation. The mouse does what you want it to. Making complicated paths is a cinch. I've tried other pcs and different mouses (mice?) but can't get the precision that a Mac offers.