Can I do a ram upgrade on my imac and what kind of firewire do I have?pgrade and firewire
I have an iMac from 2008 or thereabouts. I want to get into video editing and buy FCPX. I have model identifier iMac8.1, with an Intel Core2 Duo 2.66 Ghz, with 2 GB ram, one 1 GB DDR2SDRAM 800 MHz in each bank. Graphics card is ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro. The FireWireBus is up to 800 Mb/sec.
Questions:
Can I expand to 4 GB of ram, as I’m told I should do for FCPX. Do I have the slots for that?
Is the graphics card sufficient for FCPX?
To get an external hard drive with fast connection for video transfer, do I need one with a Firewire 400 connector cable or Firewire 800? Or do they use the same connectors?
Thanks in advance for all help.
According to this http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/stats/imac-core-2-duo-2.66-20-inch-al uminum-early-2008-penryn-specs.html your iMac can be upgraded to even 6GB RAM.
The 2600Pro is sadly on this list http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4664 of not being OpenCL-compatible which is a requirement for FCP X
FirewireBus up to 800Mb/sec means that you have 1 FireWire800 port (plus 1 Fireswire400 port) on your iMac.
FW800 and FW400 use different connectors but there are FW800-to-FW400 adapters avaiable.
Personally i would go for an external harddisk with a FW800 connector.
Stefan
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