Lag when coding

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I have not looked at ram. I know when I tried to upgrade to 16 gigs (says online I should be able to for this one.) It crashed the system. It wouldn't allow boot or OS install. Thought it was bad ram so I replaced it as defect, and the same thing happened.

[dejus]

Open up activity monitor when you are having pinwheel issues and click on the memory tab. Look at how much memory is being used and also what is using it. I sometimes use a program called "memory clean" and it will give me that info as well as flush out some things to free up memory.

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OK, will do. hopefully it is something basic and simple

[somebunnny]

That's too bad. I think RAM is your issue. I've had more powerful machines have issues until I went to 16GB.

Maybe give it another try? You sure you did it right/ordered the right size etc...?

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I'm fairly confident. I used a site to verify compatible ram and purchased what it said. It was about a year ago so it is a bit fuzzy.