Ram upgrade on mac mini

You mean I can't race my Porsche down the 30 MPH street? ;-}

Sadly, too many people get stuck up on the speed of the RAM modules and not to pay attention to the limits of the bus (road in my example).

I suppose you can...funny how many people do that. I was bicycling home yesterday behind a young man in a new McLaren Spider sports car with dealer plates. He was going 20 MPH in stop-and-go rush hour traffic, revving his motor all the way. It seemed like a very expensive way to travel, considering that a 15-year old Honda Civic will go 20 MPH, burn a lot less gas, and the clutch is cheaper to replace :-/

My examples tend to be household ones. I'd compare bus speed limitations to plumbing: If your bathtub holds 50 gallons, your tap will pass 5 gallons per minute, and your inflow pipe is 1/2" diameter, it doesn't matter whether the reservoir is 5000 gallons or 10,000 gallons - the tub will fill at the rate determined by the chokepoint (probably the tap).

I think people run into the Spinal Tap "this dial goes to 11!" confusion. The Spinal Tap line is two jokes in one: The first is the idea that the amp's louder because the number's bigger. The numbers are the dial are meaningless - they're just indicators for "loud" and "quiet" in relative terms.

The second joke is one most people miss, because it's an electronics/audio engineer joke. A potentiometer (the "volume dial" in an analog audio circuit), when turned to maximum effect, silences the sound by diverting the audio signal to ground. The volume of the amplifier turned to 10 (maximum volume) is identical to the volume of the same circuit with no volume control at all; the potentiometer's effect on the circuit is reduced. If Nigel Tufnel had really wanted super-custom amps, he would have left the maximum volume at 10 and reduced the low end to -1 (no silence more quiet).