Macbook Pro how much ram

iraiguana · 1 Feb 2008 at 17:10

Hi everyone, I have recently purchased a macbookpro. This came with 2GB of ram and I was just looking how much more 4GB would be.

Has anyone upgraded this from 2->4Gb and seen any real world difference?

Thanks for any help in this matter.

iraiguana · 1 Feb 2008 at 17:13

hmm could a mod move this to the hardware section forgot I was in software

thanks

SooTyLaD · 1 Feb 2008 at 17:18

you will notice a real world difference if you have loads of apps open at once... if not, its doubtful at the moment

WotDa · 1 Feb 2008 at 17:20

I'm thinking about this myself... I caught Excel using 150Mb earlier.

iSam · 1 Feb 2008 at 19:27

QuiKsiLVeR said:
you will notice a real world difference if you have loads of apps open at once... if not, its doubtful at the moment

On the nose, if you are running lots of things at the same time then its a gem. If not then you wont notice any differences really - people think that it will allow them to boot faster and load programs quicker but the difference is minimal at best. The real and only difference is when it comes to multitasking and running a lot of different processes.

benneh · 3 Feb 2008 at 17:32

Isotope said:
On the nose, if you are running lots of things at the same time then its a gem. If not then you wont notice any differences really - people think that it will allow them to boot faster and load programs quicker but the difference is minimal at best. The real and only difference is when it comes to multitasking and running a lot of different processes.

Video editing and photo/sound editing etc will see a big improvement.