My Mac Pro is now over three years old, though the design is Early 2008 – four years ago. When I bought the machine, I had 8 Gb of RAM installed, which was fine back then, but now, when I have a large iTunes database, thousands of photos and many iMovie projects, the Mac was starting to crawl a little. Running Windows 7, under Parallels, for my weather station, was also using up vital memory. To bring my machine back up to acceptable levels of performance, I replaced four of the 1 Gb chips with 4 Gb chips to push [Read more]
Aug 072012