4GB ram macbook

drak3

drak3

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Hey guys,

I am thinking to buy 2x2GB crucial ram from OCuk for my macbook. The price came down now and it's fair I think.

Is there any benefit from 2GB to 4GB?

Will the OS support it?

Is the crucial ram ocUK sells of higher quality(and thus slight performance) over what apple sells?

cheers
 
The OS supports it, as does the motherboard IIRC. It'd make it much nicer if you're using a lot of programs with an appetite for RAM, especially Parallels and Photoshop/Aperture.
 
I am on tiger at the moment, should I upgrade to leopard or tiger will work also?

I bought it last year around this time, it's core 2 duo 2Ghz
 
The Core 2 Duos all support 4GB physically. The first gen Core Duos will not book with 4 Gigs.

The pre Santa Rosa Core 2 Duo Macbooks (yours) will only show 3.3Gigs but will function perfectly. This is a chipset limitation.

At the current prices it is worth it.
 
I can't say I really noticed much of an increase between 1gb to 2gb on my Macbook. I spose it made it a bit easier when I had PS, FM08 and VMFusion open but not a wow, thats amazing amount.
 
artaxerxes said:
The Core 2 Duos all support 4GB physically. The first gen Core Duos will not book with 4 Gigs.

The pre Santa Rosa Core 2 Duo Macbooks (yours) will only show 3.3Gigs but will function perfectly. This is a chipset limitation.

At the current prices it is worth it.
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This is sad :(

It will show 3.3 but use 4GB, or show and use 3.3?

I purchased mine Dec 2006 to be exact, which is pre santa rosa as you say?
 
It will show 3.3 and use 3.3 alas.

If you need it for Parallels or some other purpose it is well worth it at the price mem is now.

If you just were upgrading on a lark 2gb is fine.
 
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