My two daughters had 'second-hand' imacs for christmas. They have very little in the way of programmes on them although they have office for macs. We have been trying to load the mac version of The Sims and both machines are saying they do not have enough memory to open the programme. I have tried deleting various other folders to make space, but it doesnt seem to make any difference to the amount required. Seems very odd - can anyone help please. Thanks
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Wow some pretty confusing directions above if you're not already Mac-Savvy. Hopefully I can shed some more light here.
First, for us to help you it's important to know the configuration of the machines you are working with. You can find details in the Apple System Profiler.... get there by:
Apple Menu | Apple System Profiler |
Once there make active the System Profile tab (far left)
We're looking for Built In Memory under the Memory Overview drop down. You can also find this info in About This Computer - click on the desktop and navigate to the Apple Menu...first item should be About... there's built in memory listed there.
if the machine you are dealing with has 32MB or less you're probably going to want a RAM chip upgrade no matter what you're runnning on there. You could drop this in yourself with a little tutoring...
Of course you can designate that your computer use part of your Hard Drive space as "Virtual Memory" by turning virtual memory "on" - Apple Menu | Control Panels | Memory click the radio button for "on" and set the ram to about 128.
Certainly shutting off certain system components via the Extension Manager MAY help here but if' you're not familiar with the extensions it would be tough to know what to shut off without an assist.
I'll check back here and see whether you've forged ahead..
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First, for us to help you it's important to know the configuration of the machines you are working with. You can find details in the Apple System Profiler.... get there by:
Apple Menu | Apple System Profiler |
Once there make active the System Profile tab (far left)
We're looking for Built In Memory under the Memory Overview drop down. You can also find this info in About This Computer - click on the desktop and navigate to the Apple Menu...first item should be About... there's built in memory listed there.
if the machine you are dealing with has 32MB or less you're probably going to want a RAM chip upgrade no matter what you're runnning on there. You could drop this in yourself with a little tutoring...
Of course you can designate that your computer use part of your Hard Drive space as "Virtual Memory" by turning virtual memory "on" - Apple Menu | Control Panels | Memory click the radio button for "on" and set the ram to about 128.
Certainly shutting off certain system components via the Extension Manager MAY help here but if' you're not familiar with the extensions it would be tough to know what to shut off without an assist.
I'll check back here and see whether you've forged ahead..
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