Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2009-11-09-16:21:32 Spencer Cheng: > don't pay Apple for extra memory or bigger/faster > hard disk, it's usually cheaper to do the upgrade with aftermarket parts > when you need it. Memory in particular is extra pricey from Apple for > some reason related to greed. What he said. Most Macs (except in particular the Mini, which you have to pry open in an odd way) are pretty easy to swap/upgrade mamory in, and Apple's RAM prices are absurd. I usually buy machines with the least possible memory, and buy a machinefull of matched memory from Crucial: http://www.crucial.com/index.aspx The same is true to a lesser extent about hard drives. It's usually been an almighty pain in the butt to swap laptop drives. It's insanely easy in the Mac Pro towers, so for one of those, I'd get the cheapest disk from Apple, and quite possibly immediately replace it (with something bigger if I planned on one boot/data disk, or with something smallish and crazy-fast like a Velociraptor or SSD if I planned to have a dedicated boot/application disk).