Which upgrade for my macbook ?

Ender · 18 Oct 2007 at 19:10

Was thinking of either upgrading the ram on my macbook to 2gb, or buying a 7200rpm drive, i was wondering what would give the most general performance boasts?

J1234 · 18 Oct 2007 at 19:29

Depends what your using your MacBook for?

If you mean just overall performance boost, then upgrade the RAM. Increasing the HDD speed would boot up quicker, and be quicker with video work like encoding etc.

Will_3rd · 18 Oct 2007 at 19:30

2GB RAM for sure

theheyes · 18 Oct 2007 at 19:49

RAM without doubt. More RAM will cut down disk access which is the slowest link in most systems.

PeterNem · 19 Oct 2007 at 11:45

I just upped the ram in my Macbook from 1gb to 2gb and it's loads better, especially when you have quite a few apps open, or in my case, if you are running parallels or something.

gumbald · 20 Oct 2007 at 00:49

Does the RAM increase affect battery life noticably? Mine will be looking at the same upgrade too soon for when I start having to use Matlab

barnettgs · 20 Oct 2007 at 01:13

Ender said:
Was thinking of either upgrading the ram on my macbook to 2gb, or buying a 7200rpm drive, i was wondering what would give the most general performance boasts?

Upgrade to 2GB, no doubt about that.

My friend's Macbook just flies on Vista as well!

J1234 · 20 Oct 2007 at 11:22

gumbald said:
Does the RAM increase affect battery life noticably? Mine will be looking at the same upgrade too soon for when I start having to use Matlab

I doubt it very much, increasing the HDD speed might do though, but hardly noticeable.

Will_3rd · 20 Oct 2007 at 11:35

gumbald said:
Does the RAM increase affect battery life noticeably? Mine will be looking at the same upgrade too soon for when I start having to use Matlab

Might improve battery life theoretically if it ever had to go to the HDD if the RAM was full.

gumbald · 20 Oct 2007 at 11:37

Will_3rd said:
Might improve battery life theoretically if it ever had to go to the HDD if the RAM was full.

That's what I figured, it's still powering the same two channels, just addressing a different range.

theheyes · 20 Oct 2007 at 11:43

If theres more stuff in RAM theres more the controller needs to "top up" with charge but I dont think its even worth trying to measure its that insignificant.

unknowndomain · 20 Oct 2007 at 16:38

What do you use your computer for?