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Re: Helping a friend with their imac: installing software??

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From: spodosaurus
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:19
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huh wrote:

> More specific questions may help, and
> what processor does that iMac use, and how much RAM is there? 

Not sure of the processor, but there appears to be only 32mb of ram in 
it. I'm not sure how that rates among macs, but for PCs that's pretty 
low. It's unable to run Netscape 7.02 effectively due to lack of RAM 
(it's constantly swapping to the hard disk, and it's so slow as to be 
virtually unusable...though it does render pages correctly). I think 
it's probably going to need a little extra memory. Now I need to find 
out what kind of memory it takes, where it's located, and how to install 
more on an imac (I don't like the whole built in monitor deal...afraid 
of capacitors and shocks...but I've never been inside an imac so maybe 
my fears are unfounded).

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