<strong>what company supplies the ram inside of the iMac [the non-user-accessible one]?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Any memory company sells that kind of ram. The non-user accessible one is a 168-Pin PC100 DIMM slot (apple recommends PC133) and the user accessible slot is a 144-Pin PC100/133 SO-DIMM.
I usually look memory up on <a href="http://www.pricewatch.com/"; target="_blank">pricewatch.com</a>. You can get the 512MB PC133 DIMM for as low as $42 right now.
I paid $94 for a 512MB of PC133 SO-DIMM from <a href="http://www.mohawkmemory.com"; target="_blank">mohawkmemory.com</a> because I've heard good things about them.
Hope this helps.
BTW: this question would have been better posted in the Genius bar... (Not that I'm a Genius )
at least not without the .pdf manual for the machine printed out and on hand.
the iMac has a fairly unique (for a desktop) way of dealing with heat involving piping and heat transfer plates. when you crack it apart to add the ram, you break the seal on those plates. you need to have new thremal paste on hand. then you have to clean the plates and reapply thermal paste, and make sure to tighten the torx screws tightly enough.
if you fail to do any of the above, at minimum you will get constant kernal panics. you also have an excellent chance of destroying your CPU.
don't **** with the inside RAM unless you know what you're doing. or you'll have an $1,800 paper weight.
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<strong>what company supplies the ram inside of the iMac [the non-user-accessible one]?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Any memory company sells that kind of ram. The non-user accessible one is a 168-Pin PC100 DIMM slot (apple recommends PC133) and the user accessible slot is a 144-Pin PC100/133 SO-DIMM.
I usually look memory up on <a href="http://www.pricewatch.com/"; target="_blank">pricewatch.com</a>. You can get the 512MB PC133 DIMM for as low as $42 right now.
I paid $94 for a 512MB of PC133 SO-DIMM from <a href="http://www.mohawkmemory.com"; target="_blank">mohawkmemory.com</a> because I've heard good things about them.
Hope this helps.
BTW: this question would have been better posted in the Genius bar... (Not that I'm a Genius
The CRT iMac and eMac use 168-Pin DIMMs in both slots... I believe?
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DO NOT ATTEMPT TO UPDATE THIS CHIP YOURSELF.
at least not without the .pdf manual for the machine printed out and on hand.
the iMac has a fairly unique (for a desktop) way of dealing with heat involving piping and heat transfer plates. when you crack it apart to add the ram, you break the seal on those plates. you need to have new thremal paste on hand. then you have to clean the plates and reapply thermal paste, and make sure to tighten the torx screws tightly enough.
if you fail to do any of the above, at minimum you will get constant kernal panics. you also have an excellent chance of destroying your CPU.
don't **** with the inside RAM unless you know what you're doing. or you'll have an $1,800 paper weight.
Shouldn't be too much hassle getting bigger hard drive as the 17 inch widescreen iMac has 80Gb in same size of dome.
are they allowed to intall non-apple branded items?
I'm sure the 80gig is @ 5400rpm, so i must replace with a 7200rpm