Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec
by FireBeyond on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @12:16PM
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Well, for one, the memory is far cheaper and faster. 56GB of memory (going from eight to 64) will set you back $1,000 alone from Apple, or $252 from Amazon (and before anyone complains "but the Apple memory will be higher quality", unlikely. Same manufacturers. In fact, you can get far faster memory yourself, versus the 2666 on some Apple stuff).
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But for the up iMacs (not the base models) you can put in third-party RAM. That is what I have always done to avoid Apples high prices on that (except on my laptop, where it is soldered in). But I would caution you about trying to mix in faster RAM, many non-third part. system only take one speed of RAM. That makes the system not only cheaper to build, but often you can tweak some more speed (really latency) out of it.