I come from a time when I bought a $2000 iMac that came with 256mb RAM and then for $300 I upgraded it to a supreme 768mb RAM!!!! As I am reading reviews to make a new purchase I hear that 8GB is a 'bare minimum' these days.

If you really go for bioinformatics you will spend most of your day time with that computer. Choose a damn good one! 2 The point is that the real big data will be ran in a cluster anyway, you don't actually need to crunch GB of data on your laptop. What you need is a comfortable, stable and solid machine to work on all day long.

The new operating system High Sierra OS X 10.13, slated for release this autumn will be compatible for your machine. An SSD or SSHD really kicks this baby up. But you need to replace the hard drive/IR cable with one from a 2012 machine. Apple part number 604-07597. Next when you do it, place tape on the bottom of the case that the hard drive sits on (I'll try to give you a link to that issue).

Rip but get a win 10 or Mac os CD. I have tried your settings on my 21.5' Mid 2011 mac running Windows 10 but does it need the amount your have because when I play on these settings I only get around 12 fps and below (I have 4gb of ram). So I tried to install Windows 8 onto my mid 2011 Mac-mini on macOS High Sierra but it required a USB. I'm not sure if I should upgrade my MacBook Pro now or if I could use my MacBook Pro for a bit longer. I have a MacBook Pro Late 2011 with a 2,4 GHz Intel Core i5, a 500Gb HDD and 4Gb RAM. Either I could get 8Gb/16Gb RAM and a 500Gb SSD or I could get a new MacBook Pro/iPad Pro.

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Run an inventory of your most important apps, and don’t forget hardware that needs its own software. If everything is compatible, make sure to upgrade all that software first, then move on to macOS High Sierra. And some utilities will need to be updated too. Apple has changed the way utilities can access parts of the operating system, and some of your favorite utilities may not run without upgrades. MacOS High Sierra will be an excellent upgrade, but you should make sure to prepare your Mac so you don’t have any surprises.

Apple Mac mini 'Core i7' 2.7 (Mid-2011) Specs Identifiers: Mid-2011 - BTO/CTO - - - Distribute This Page: Download: The Mac mini 'Core i7' 2.7 (Mid-2011/Aluminum Unibody) technically is a 'configure-to-order' configuration of the MC816LL/A, but also is documented as a separate model for reader convenience. Other than processor (and the corresponding larger level 3 cache), these two models are identical. The Apple Mac mini 'Core i7' 2.7 (Mid-2011/Aluminum Unibody) features a 32-nm 'Sandy Bridge' 2.7 GHz Intel 'Core i7' (2620M) processor with two independent processor 'cores' on a single chip, a 4 MB shared level 3 cache, 4 GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 SDRAM (PC3-10600) memory, a 500 GB hard drive, and AMD Radeon HD 6630M graphics with 256 MB of dedicated GDDR5 memory.

Model ID Memory Slots Memory Type Max Memory Upgradeable Notes iMac 4,1 Early 2006 2 200-pin PC2-5300 DDR2 (667 MHz) SO-DIMM 2 GB Yes iMac 4,2 Mid 2006 2 200-pin PC2-5300 DDR2 (667 MHz) SO-DIMM 2 GB Yes iMac 5,1 Late 2006 2 200-pin PC2-5300 DDR2 (667 MHz) SO-DIMM 4 GB Yes Using matched 2 GB modules, your iMac can access 3 GB of the 4 GB installed. IMac 5.2 Late 2006 2 200-pin PC2-5300 DDR2 (667 MHz) SO-DIMM 4 GB Yes Using matched 2 GB modules, your iMac can access 3 GB of the 4 GB installed. IMac 6,1 Late 2006 2 200-pin PC2-5300 DDR2 (667 MHz) SO-DIMM 4 GB Yes Using matched 2 GB modules, your iMac can access 3 GB of the 4 GB installed. IMac 7,1 Mid 2007 2 200-pin PC2-5300 DDR2 (667 MHz) SO-DIMM 4 GB Yes Use matched 2 GB modules iMac 8,1 Early 2008 2 200-pin PC2-6400 DDR2 (800 MHz) SO-DIMM 6 GB Yes Use a 2 GB and 4 GB module. IMac 9,1 Early 2009 2 204-pin PC3-8500 DDR3 (1066 MHz) SO-DIMM 8 GB Yes Use matched pairs of 4 GB per memory slot.

If you don't plan for the future, your open applications might end up slowing down the system by paging to disk. That may force you to change your computer usage behavior when you are using memory intensive applications, like not running as many of these simultaneously. You will need to decide for yourself whether or not you will be able to live with those kind of adjustments. Two major factors that dictate this decision are 1.) what sort of applications you use and 2.) how long do you envision owning this system. If you don't plan for the future, your open applications might end up slowing down the system by paging to disk. That may force you to change your computer usage behavior when you are using memory intensive applications, like not running as many of these simultaneously. You will need to decide for yourself whether or not you will be able to live with those kind of adjustments.

Where do contact request show up on skype for mac. Solutions: check for app updates, visit developer's website to see if they’ve issued a statement about Sierra compatibility. Also, try running in CleanMyMac, we’ve seen some apps miraculously fixed after the procedure.

My iMac and MacBook both have 256 GB SSDs, but I use an external drive connected to my iMac to hold my media files. Having the operating system on an SSD is important; the media files, which aren’t read often, don’t need to be on a disk as fast. Should I back up my Mac before upgrading? I bet already know the answer. I’ve always been a belt-and-suspenders guy as far as backups are concerned, and I recommend using at least two types of backup.

I have tried hybrid, and while it was nicer than a straight hard drive, it doesn’t compare with a full fledged SSD. For some users in some applications, though, it might be a perfect mix of hard drive capacity and sometime SSD throughput. In Closing We Mac geeks have had a long history of hacking Mac OS X to run on unsupported hardware – starting with OS X 10.2. The biggest success was probably the, allowing easy installation on Macs with below the official 867 MHz threshold. Collin Mistr’s patch is the same kind of thing for macOS Sierra. If your Mac is not supported by Apple but is by Mistr’s patch, give it a try.

THX for posts cya. I have followed your instructions to the letter and those of every other source I could find (all pretty much saying the same), but nothing works. I have the current release of VMware Workstation 12 Pro running on Win 7 Ult. X64, with virtualization enabled in the BIOS. Following your instructions, I get to the initial macos boot with a white Apple logo on a black background, then a Windows message box appears saying: “The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system.

Same with fsck -fy in Single User mode. Disk Warrior finds no problems. Drive Genius 3.1.2 finds NO BAD BLOCKS. Mystified, I tried many things, ultimately including zeroing out the drive and reinstalling Snow Leopard from scratch. Immediately after that, and *before* I installed *any* non-Apple software, I tried running Verify Disk from Safe Boot mode again, but it turned out that the **only** thing that fixed it was changing back to the stock 4GB RAM. So I contacted OWC’s Customer Service department and was cross-shipped another pair of 8 GB chips via FedEX overnight, but as soon as I installed those the same problem returned. I removed them, went back to the stock 4GB, and, again, the problem was resolved.

Monday, March 14th, 2011 Author: Two weeks ago how upgrading to Apple’s maximum supported 8GB of memory and an could speed up your machine to two and a half times faster then stock in the latest 2011 MacBook Pro Core i5 and Core i7 machines. Two weeks ago, we were ecstatic about the performance numbers we were seeing. Like an average 25% faster performance with 8GB of memory!

Faster RAM may not work correctly; slower RAM will not work at all. If both sticks of RAM are marked with the correct speed and the correct size, then one of the sticks may be defective, in which case they should be returned to the retailer/manufacturer for warranty replacement. According to OWC, DDR3-1600 MHz RAM will work in 2011 Unibody MacBook Pros, although the speed will downscale to the 1333 MHz internal bus speed. 1600 MHz RAM will also work in 2011 iMacs.

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) vcpu-0:VERIFY vmcore/vmm/main/physMem_monitor.c:1180 A log file is available in “C: Users raka Documents Virtual Machines macOS High Sierra vmware.log”. You can request support. To collect data to submit to VMware support, choose “Collect Support Data” from the Help menu. You can also run the “vm-support” script in the Workstation folder directly. We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

Stability of the system is unbelievably important when you are working for days with different apps. I tried many times to run the same memory crunching scripts on OSX an Windows, with machine having similar CPU and the same RAM. Windows simply freeze! OSX goes on like bull. Believe me, you do not want to see your script crashing after one hour of calculations because someone is calling you on Skype in the meantime sucking the last few bites of memory. Also it is not matter of cost, to spend few box more for a computer that makes your life easier is a great deal. I saw countless people (me included) willing to save money buying a plastic calculator and ending up after 6 months with poor battery life, 2 antivirus running in the same time, and just very slow, almost inoperable, windows system.

While it's true Apple has not gone back to test the newer memory modules others have. In addition, some systems (Core2 Duo) do have a limit due to the CPU and the memory controller logic used in them.

The Mac actually has several Show Desktop keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS and Mac OS X, and for Macs that are equipped with a Trackpad, there is an easy to use gesture to show the desktop as well. Let’s review the keyboard shortcut options for showing the desktop on the Mac. For more shortcuts, check the shortcut abbreviations shown in the menus of your apps. Every app can have its own shortcuts, and shortcuts that work in one app might not work in another. Accessibility shortcuts; Safari shortcuts; Spotlight shortcuts; Startup shortcuts; iTunes shortcuts: Choose Help > Keyboard shortcuts from the menu bar in iTunes. How to create a link for a pdf file. Users who have recently moved from Windows computer to a Mac, you must have faced this issue of placing icon shortcuts of your favorite apps. But the good news is that Mac users can also place shortcut icons of apps they use regularly. The Unofficial Apple Weblog detailed one of these improvements this morning: the ability to save a document or webpage directly to a PDF from the File menu. OS X has long had excellent built-in. We have used variations of custom keystrokes in many prior tips, including to perform actions like setting a keyboard shortcut for Save as PDF, making new emails with an attachment via keystroke, using Save As on Mac versions that removed the keystroke, and much more. The options are broad and vast, encompassing system functionality, default.

Mac mini fans waited a for an update and, upon witnessing Apple’s of the 2014 Mac mini during October’s iPad event, issued a collective sigh of relief. Finally. Sure, the new model sported the same form factor as its predecessor, and there was seemingly nothing radical to justify Apple’s delay in updating the product, but at least the Mac mini could finally get the “new” features that have been available on other Macs for over a year, such as PCIe-based flash storage, Haswell processors, and 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Apple also cut the entry level price by $100 to boot, bringing the system back to its, psychologically significant $499 price point. But it didn’t take long for even this arguably consolation prize-style update to begin to unravel. It was soon revealed that Apple was using in the new Mac minis, an unfortunate development that meant that customers would no longer be able to upgrade their memory after purchase. Want the maximum 16GB of RAM for your new Mac? That’ll be at checkout, with no option to find a cheaper third party alternative, or upgrade down the road if memory prices decrease.

It has never been dropped and had no dents. It comes with the power supply & original box. It currently is running with Yosemite OS. Additionally, I left the ZAGG protective film where the keyboard is. This can be peeled off by the new owner.

Because Apple constantly produces nuanced operating systems, these laptops can be found with a large variety of processors. How you intend to use your laptop should, in part, determine which Intel processor you should get.

Support for Apple iPhone headset with microphone. Supported resolutions: 1920 by 1200 (native), 1680 by 1050, 1280 by 800, 1152 by 720, 1024 by 640, and 800 by 500 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1280 by 1024 pixels at 5:4 aspect ratio; 1280 by 1024 pixels at 5:4 aspect ratio stretched; 1600 by 1200, 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio; 1600 by 1200, 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio stretched; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio stretched.

Everything seems to be working fine *except* that shortly after I installed the 16GB RAM (from OWC) I happened to discover that running “Verify Disk” from Disk Utility on the internal drive while in Safe Boot mode freezes Disk Utility so hard that it locks up the computer to the point that a power-button forced restart is the only way out. Running Verify Disk on the same drive in Standard Boot mode works fine, and reports no errors.

The Aura 480GB replacement SSD for Macbook Pros 10,2 is currently incompatible with APFS as anything been do to rectify this? Dear Larry, Thank you for your phone call.

I bought the memory on Amazon and it was cheap and you can check on YouTube for instructions on how to replace it in your machine. My MacBook Pro and my iMac both have 16 gigs and the old iMac is a I5 and the MacBook Pro is a I7.

The standard keyboard is sunken and LED backlit. There's an optical disc drive on the right side of the body. Two video cards mean a decent amount of graphics processing is possible, and a battery life of around 4 to 5 hours of continuous use. MacOS is typically pre-installed on the laptop. The weight of the laptop depends on the screen size and a few other variables, but it typically weighs in between 1.37kg to 2kg. While you're considering the type of MacBook Pro 2011 that fits into your lifestyle, don't hesitate to check out the full range of, including the range of.

You can find how to boot into your system BIOS. To get started you need to download the following materials in order to install macOS High Sierra on VMware on Windows. • • (1 Part) • (8 Parts) • Step #1: Extract macOS High Sierra Image Once you have downloaded the macOS High Sierra image file, then you should extract it via or after that you can use this image. To unzip the file, just right-click on file then select“ Extract Here.“ It will take around 5 minutes. Extract macOS High Sierra Final Image Step #2: Install VMware on Your PC Get the VMware from the link above.

If you edit 4K with proxy media (where you make a smaller resolution copy and the edits to that are mirrored to the source footage) you don't need a fast machine for editing. Two major factors that dictate this decision are 1.) what sort of applications you use and 2.) how long do you envision owning this system. I expect to get 6-7 years out of my Macs. It's not just about what's adequate RAM for today, but how much I might need in years 5, 6, 7 knowing that applications tend to require more RAM in later versions as well as the operating system itself. In this case, you will also have to anticipate the increased memory usage of Windows itself (as well as increases to Parallels Desktop or whatever virtualization software you will be using in the future).