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

On 1/14/21 8:01 PM, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
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.

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.

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.

-mb


On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:11 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Recently I bought a Dell Optiplex 7010.  Today I started looking for
some more memory (2 4GB DIMMs) to put in it.  Some said it was for the
Dell while others didn't claim to be for a specific model.   I did
notice that the ones claiming to be for a Dell were about twice the cost
of those that didn't and I don't want to pay the extra if I can avoid
it. I'm sending links to a couple of the choices.  Can someone tell me
if there's any difference between the two? Thanks.

https://tinyurl.com/y69nepup

https://tinyurl.com/y54gjnfz

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