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Adding RAM After Purchase
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Given how many people are insisting on 4GB, I have to think the investment now will pay off later if you plan on reselling.
That was one reason I opted to CTO a 4GB model. The other is that I use it to play CIV5, COD, etc. on the road. I didn't like the idea of running WIN7 with 1.75GB after the 320m took its share of memory.
Definitely worth the extra $100 ($90 EDU) if either scenario may apply to you now or in the future.
That was one reason I opted to CTO a 4GB model. The other is that I use it to play CIV5, COD, etc. on the road. I didn't like the idea of running WIN7 with 1.75GB after the 320m took its share of memory.
Definitely worth the extra $100 ($90 EDU) if either scenario may apply to you now or in the future.
What makes me chuckle is all this twoddle people bleat on about "future proofing"
and yet, I bet hardly anybody will actually keep their pc for longer than 2 years, quite often a fair bit less.
and yet, I bet hardly anybody will actually keep their pc for longer than 2 years, quite often a fair bit less.
Some of us do. Rather than get a new iMac, I'll supplement my 3 year old model with a MBA--and with 4GB of RAM, it will have twice as much as my iMac. 
Some of us do. Rather than get a new iMac, I'll supplement my 3 year old model with a MBA--and with 4GB of RAM, it will have twice as much as my iMac.
So you're replacing one computer with another newer model.
I rest my case.
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But your picture looks to be mearly a hand soldering station. I think the memory chips are in BGA (Ball Grid Array) packaging: You won't be able to take them off and put new ones on by hand soldering!
There is a big difference between "can afford" and "worth the money".
Two 2 GB sticks for a standard MacBook is only $45 from Crucial, and that doesn't take into account the possibility of selling your old DIMMs. $100 may not be "a lot of money", but it is severely overcharging for what you get. The actual cost difference would be "acceptable" to me at $50, and almost certainly costs Apple less than $25. (As the price difference from the 2 GB model; quite possibly at little difference as $10, although $15 seems more realistic - as the retail price difference between two 1 GB DDR3 SO-DIMMs and two 2 GB DDR3 SO-DIMMs from Crucial is $20. The Air has 16 RAM chips soldered down, the same as two SO-DIMMs, which have 8 each.)
Would I prefer 4 GB of RAM? Sure! Am I willing to pay 10% of the cost of the system for that upgrade alone? A cost that could quite possibly be 10x the actual cost to Apple? No. At least on the MacBook, I have the option of paying half the price to a third party.
I've had a 2GB MBP for a year and a half and have never thought I needed more memory. But it's a secondary computer so my memory needs are light. I ordered a refurbished Air with 2GB this week without the slightest concern.