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In Reply to: RE: Your Mac Mini supports up to 8GB of RAM posted by DSG on October 02, 2015 at 16:56:59
...catastrophic failures prevailed with the attempts to upgrade to 8GB
Never heard of such a thing, unless the memory was not the right type, the EFI Firmware was old, the memory was installed incorrectly, or the system was somehow fat fingered and botched up during the installation process.
I've used memory from OWC Mac Sales in the past because they thoroughly test to ensure that the memory they sell is fully compatible with the Mac model being upgraded. They charge a few bucks more but it's worth it IMHO.
I have Macs with memory that I have upgraded beyond what Apple sells and they work perfectly fine. If your Mini was under warranty I can understand the hesitation but it's a 2009 model.
If you feel squeamish about doing it yourself, you might ask your tech about it and have him do it. The additional RAM will open up new possibilities especially with players like Pure Music, Audirvana Plus, Amarra, HQPlayer, and others. The additional memory also allows you to allocate more to the "memory play" feature in Audirvana Plus and others.
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was for CDs somehow played through AV+.
Do you recommend it for File Playback?
I've got 16 GB on IMac/Yosemite.
Do you recommend it for File Playback? I've got 16 GB on IMac/Yosemite.Sure! Give it a try since you have lots of memory to spare. You may or may not hear a benefit. It loads tracks into RAM before playback which can theoretically help especially if your music resides on spinning disk.
I have my memory play allocated at 8GB of RAM, which is plenty.
Edits: 10/03/15
Please to direct me to it!
AV+
With AV+ launched, go toward the upper Left of your screen and click on Audirvana Plus, then click on Preferences.In the Preferences pane, click on the Audio System button.
Move the slider toward the bottom of the window to adjust the amount of
memory to allocate for "memory play". Mine is set to 8,192 MB which is
8 GB. Once you've made the change, exit out of AV+ completely then
relaunch it to ensure that the change took effect.
Edits: 10/03/15
8 GB it is!
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