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4Gb RAM?

Masher500 said:
going from 2 to 4 is there a big difference? I mean is it pretty noticeable performance boost?
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That depends 100% on what you are doing. For most average every day uses in the year 2007, probably not. But with Photoshop open to a 100MB file and 2 Parallels virtual machines running Windows Vista and converting a DVD, yes, it would make a huge difference.
 
My Kingston RAM arrived from buy.com yesterday. It took a couple minutes to install (easier than I though based on Macbook installation stories I had read). I turned on on my computer, and I am now enjoying 4GB (well, not quite -- mid-2007 Macbook C2D). Most notably, I notice that application such as Mail, iTunes, Safari load super fast, almost instantaneously. Cover flow actually flows now, as opposed to choppily progressing before (1GB RAM before). Other than that, I am probably not doing much to put the extra 3GBs through its paces, but, again, for $90, it was practically given away. No if sorting out my flaky wireless were only this easy...
 
OK, I am tempted to buy this, but I am asking myself a couple of questions to which I have no answers to.

1. Is this brand safe (AKA: is it going to crash my MBP?)
2. For a person who uses Final Cut Pro, would this make things faster overall?
 
Masher500 said:
going from 2 to 4 is there a big difference? I mean is it pretty noticeable performance boost?
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I am a moderate user. When I have Safari, Mail, iChat, iTunes, Address Book, iPhoto and iWork (usually Numbers) open, I just barely hit 2GB usage according to Activity Monitor.

I would say that unless you use the heavy Adobe apps, 2GB should be fine.
 
dcorban said:
I am a moderate user. When I have Safari, Mail, iChat, iTunes, Address Book, iPhoto and iWork (usually Numbers) open, I just barely hit 2GB usage according to Activity Monitor.

I would say that unless you use the heavy Adobe apps, 2GB should be fine.
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How about Final Cut Pro? Does anyone know if 4GB increases Rendering time for videos?
 
Probably not, since the bottlenecks will be the CPU and hard drive (depending on the size of the source files you are working with).
 
Hi guys,

I just bought a macbook Santa Rosa. I need to buy 4GB, do you have a(the cheapest) link ?

bye
 
4gb is definitely worth it, I paid more because I got it in September, now it is almost $100 cheaper:mad: for 4gb, but still worth it. From 2 to 4 on my mbp it got snappier mostly for Rosetta stuff and general apps were just perceivably faster. If you use parallels/fusion, it is a bonus to devote 2gb to a virtual system while enabling you to still do stuff in osx :)

I have yet to utilize my enire 4gb in one shot, but am still glad I got it (closest was 2.68gb while working on a 2'x3' poster in photoshop). So if you do anything that requires ram intensity get 4 max it out ram is cheap again...

well, unless you can find someone making 8gbx1 sodimms that is.....;)

btw I got mine from owc, (macsales.com) they were fast (overnight to canada) and cheap, plus their ram is certified
 
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