<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Cue the probable: Apple may be expensive, but I rarely have failures with it. My wife's 2011 Macbook Pro was just updated with 16GB Ram and a 255 GB SSD - it has no issues doing anything she needs it to. That being said, it is no longer "eligible" for "feature" updates via MacOS, although it is clearly capable of handling the load. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">I stick with Apple for my desktop (given the choice) and Linux for my servers :) </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">My biggest heartache is seeing that the death of the hackintosh is on the horizon with switching to the ARM CPU set, but who knows? If they can get Linux working on it, and I've seen large interest in getting Linux on the M1 chipset, maybe they'll find a way to put MacOS on off the shelf components as we've been able to do with x86/64</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Thomas Scott | <a href="mailto:mr.thomas.scott@gmail.com" target="_blank">mr.thomas.scott@gmail.com</a> </font></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:01 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I definitely won't be buying an Apple anything. I can't afford
them. Dmidecode tells me the DIMMS are 4096 MB, 1600 MT/s and
made by Hynix/Hyundai. That makes it easy to figure out what I
need. Thanks to you and Todd Cole for replying. I<br>
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<div>Memory hasn't been as finicky in years than I found it
10-20 years or more now, most seem fairly tolerant as long as
you match up specs.</div>
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<div>If using windoze, install cpu-z and just match the specs,
speed, unbuffered, ddr-class, etc. Likewise using dmidecode
under linux, just match spec what is there now. If using a
mac, just pay whatever overpriced ram apple wants to sell you
because you or your sponsor can obviously afford it. Probably
a better way under mac, I'm sure google knows most sticks are
probably compatible there too realistically.</div>
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<div>I do miss when there used to be the technology swap meets
over in Mesa here to find old/dated hardware for stuff like
this, I think that all moved to Craigslist, now Letgo and
others, always ebay if nothing else. I always buy used ram,
particularly when talking the more pricey large ECC server
stuff, really haven't had complaints personally doing so.
Last time I put 128gb in my desktop, I did so for around a
grand from ebay getting old server dimms from a retired cisco
ucs box, same memory, which from dell would have been some $8k
of absurdity.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:11
PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Recently
I bought a Dell Optiplex 7010. Today I started looking for <br>
some more memory (2 4GB DIMMs) to put in it. Some said it was
for the <br>
Dell while others didn't claim to be for a specific model. I
did <br>
notice that the ones claiming to be for a Dell were about
twice the cost <br>
of those that didn't and I don't want to pay the extra if I
can avoid <br>
it. I'm sending links to a couple of the choices. Can someone
tell me <br>
if there's any difference between the two? Thanks.<br>
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<a href="https://tinyurl.com/y69nepup" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y69nepup</a><br>
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<a href="https://tinyurl.com/y54gjnfz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y54gjnfz</a><br>
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