We purchased an iMac 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo at the end of last July, soon after we realized that another iMac, iMac G5 2 GHz (Ambient Light), was near-dead. In fact, the latter machine doesn’t turn on itself any more.

Anyhow, we were quite happy with the latest model of iMac till about four days ago. Apple sometimes calls this model iMac (Early 2008). The official name is MB325. The machine comes with 2 GB of memory, which we thought was sufficient for the moment. We regret that we didn’t upgrade the video card to NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics processor with 512 MB. But people have unlimited wants with limited resources.

Several days ago, we decided to increase its RAM size to the maximum. iMac 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo comes with 2 GB of RAM. And we wanted to increase it to 4 GB so that we could create game play movies and video tutorials with Final Cut Pro more swiftly.

Screenshot 01 – Source: computermemoryoutlet.com

RAM cards are quite cheap these days. For example, if you visit an online store called Computer Memory Outlet (computermemoryoutlet.com), it looks like you can buy 4 GB of RAM (for iMac Core 2 Duo) for $46.20. (See Screenshot 01.) This is not where we actually bought our RAM cards. And we don’t necessarily recommend people to buy RAM at this online store. In fact, you probably want to be careful with it because I don’t think the photo is a right one. It shows that there are two splits. The right chip model should only have one split.  Continue reading →