[geeks] nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro

[Joshua Boyd]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:25:19PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> >From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
> >Date: 2008/05/21 Wed PM 01:58:17 EDT
> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [geeks] nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >I was going to get a Mini last year, but when I loaded up several  
> >applications, I found the GUI stuttered a lot when using it, and that  
> >bothered me.  Of course, the store unit only had 2GB of RAM, but it  
> >seemed to me the graphics were pretty slow.
> >
> >Of course, that was early in 2007 and there have been new Minis since  
> >then which are nicer.
> 
> 2 Gig of RAM is max supported RAM in current Mac Minis...[0]
> 
> Lionel
> 
> [0] http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html

Supported only in the sense that Apple tells you it is supported.

It is possible to put 3 gigs in and use all 3 gigs.

I think it is possible to put 4 gigs in to turn on memory interleaving,
while only seeing 3 gigs still, but it is possible that I have that
crossed with the older MacBooks.