MacBook & extra RAM questions

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I've currently got 1GB but seeing as you can get 4GB cheap I was thinking of upgrading. I mainly use it for recording/editing audio and Photoshop work. Would 4GB be a waste/even slow things down?

Read a post on here saying that adding extra RAM to MacBook's/MacBook Pro's will reduce the battery time? Anyone know roughly how much by? It isn't that much of an issue as I use it plugged in at a desk 90% of the time but it'd be good to know.

Anyone else gone from 1GB to 4GB? Big difference?

Cheers. :)
 
I don't think the MacBook supports 4GB. |

Wrong. The Core 2 Due model currently on sales does....hmm.

/me grabs credit card and head for OCUK.
 
1GB to 4GB? :eek:

You'd see a big difference.. and considering the price it's good bang-per-buck
 
Extra RAM should speed up your machine no end, 2GB+ is especially noticeable.

Theoretically it should have a beneficial effect on battery life as it has to cache less data to the HDD.
 
I have just ordered 4GB of ram, I find that 1GB ram is not enough for me. With two power point presentations open, photoshop, itunes and safari open I had 11MB of ram free. Also spaces was quite choppy when changing to different spaces.

Hopefully 4GB will make a big increase in the loading times of apps too and the machine run smoother when it has couple of apps open.

I never really thought I would need to upgrade when I first used the MacBook maybe because I was just using it for browsing the web. But now that I'm using it for work I can see that it does slow down when having apps like photoshop, dreamweaver, flash and word/excel ect..

Still I love my MacBook best piece of computing equipment I've ever bought :).
 
The more RAM you use the more power you draw, but we're talking about minute amounts of charge so you really would need benchmark conditions to notice a difference. And like someone pointed out, more RAM (in certain conditions) means less disk access.

However, the operating system sometimes chooses to page out anyway regardless of how much memory you have free, so again its not an exact science.
 
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