£32 for 4gb ram for macbook Question

craptakular · 26 Dec 2008 at 22:22

Basically money is really tight for me atm but I can afford £30. My question is basically, is it gonna get cheaper?

and will I notice a difference on my 2.1 C2D 1gb macbook? I just use it as a downloader, web browseing, email thats it really.

tbs · 27 Dec 2008 at 11:47

why dont you just get 2 gigs? 2 gigs is enough for doing what you do. unless you do a lot of rendering work

Will_3rd · 27 Dec 2008 at 12:00

Price can always change, but can't see it can getting much cheaper then £30 per se.

kip02 · 27 Dec 2008 at 18:14

I noticed the difference straight away from going from 1gb to 4gb just web browsing and using iTunes. Just felt more snappy and alert.

From a fresh boot of 10.5.5 my macbook is using about 850mb of RAM and thats before i've started opening anything. Comes in handy also if you want to run VMware with XP or something.

Do it if you can afford to. Doubt it would get cheaper, i paid £45 about a year ago so its dropped quite a bit already.

chewyuk · 27 Dec 2008 at 21:26

I have gone from 1gb to 4gb with my macbook which is the same spec as yours. As someone mentioned, it does feel more snappier and a bit more responsive.

Although I am not pushing the mac at the moment (just using for web browsing & some light photo editing), it should come into it's own when I start to use VMWare.

I don't think the prices will get that much cheaper.

craptakular · 27 Dec 2008 at 21:35

kewl. think i'll buy it. I'm gonna get 4gb as I may as well max it out other wise in the future I will have too replace the 2gb anyway.