What else can use the Mini's pre-installed 256 MB RAM?

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George Nospam - 24 Jan 2005 13:55 GMT

Greetings!

I am considering buying a couple of Minis for my office. We'd want to
upgrade the RAM to 1 GB, but I'm put off by Apple's price for that
upgrade. So the question is, what other devices (we have several G4s,
old iMacs, one eMac) could use the 256 MB chip pulled from the Mini?
Anybody know off the top of their head, or refer me to a list somewhere
on the net?

Thanks in advance!

George Fowler

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Ringo Langly - 24 Jan 2005 14:52 GMT

Hi George,

I'm also anxious to see what kind of memory the Mini Macs use, because
the price Apple is charging for 1 Gig of RAM is outragous! I'm
wondering if it uses the same 200-pin SODIMM modules used by the 1.24
Ghz iMacs. If so Crucial.com sells 512Megs in this for under $100 --
or under $200 for 1 Gig.

I'm still debating on whether to go with the 1.25 or 1.42 Ghz model.
Drive space isn't an issue for me since I have PLENTY of drive space on
my PowerMac G4 plus I have a Firewire IDE bay I can connect to it when
needed. I've read of people using the 1.25 Ghz model for Halo and
other games rather well.

Hmmm... decisions, decisions.

Ringo

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Tom Stiller - 24 Jan 2005 16:41 GMT

> Hi George,
>
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> Ghz iMacs. If so Crucial.com sells 512Megs in this for under $100 --
> or under $200 for 1 Gig.

According to MacTracker, the mini uses a 184 pin PC2700 (333MHz) DDr
SDRAM.

> I'm still debating on whether to go with the 1.25 or 1.42 Ghz model.
> Drive space isn't an issue for me since I have PLENTY of drive space on
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
> Ringo

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George Nospam - 25 Jan 2005 00:16 GMT

> According to MacTracker, the mini uses a 184 pin PC2700 (333MHz) DDr
> SDRAM.

Thanks, Tom, but what other models also use this kind of RAM? Anything
besides Macs? (such as printers)

George

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Tom Stiller - 25 Jan 2005 04:13 GMT

> > According to MacTracker, the mini uses a 184 pin PC2700 (333MHz) DDr
> > SDRAM.
>
> Thanks, Tom, but what other models also use this kind of RAM? Anything
> besides Macs? (such as printers)

I dunno :-)

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o-chan - 25 Jan 2005 16:21 GMT

>>According to MacTracker, the mini uses a 184 pin PC2700 (333MHz) DDr
>>SDRAM.
>
> Thanks, Tom, but what other models also use this kind of RAM? Anything
> besides Macs? (such as printers)

This is pretty standard RAM. Most PCs made in the last 3 years can take
this RAM. Printers? Never heard of a printer that used 184-pin DIMMs.

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What else can use the Mini's pre-installed 256 MB RAM?