how well does a macbook cope with 512mb?

[Salteh]

i cant really afford to buy anymore ram untill about the 16th of next month so im gonna be stuck on 512mb.
im planning on upgrading to 2gb asap
i could buy some i suppose if 512mb is going to cripple my macbook (2ghz model btw) but itll leave me abit short for the month, i can survive tho ;p

*edit* one quick thing, would it be any problem to buy a 1gb stick now, and another about the 16th june? i know its not a good idea normally to install different aged bits of memory and batch but surely a couple weeks wont be a big diff?

 

[kevin.rivers]

You will be fine. You may have to do less things at once. But you will survive.

Buy the chips together.

 

[Salteh]

itll be fine for browsing and itunes at the same time then?

 

[DarkKingz]

Definitely. More than enough.

 

[shadowmoses]

itll be fine for browsing and itunes at the same time then?

It'll be fine to do that and more at the same time, it may just get a little slow when you have 4-5+ programs open and having more RAM makes OS X a more enjoyable experience,

SHadoW

 

[iamhammill]

I was trying to do some work in iPhoto + Photoshop + ImageWell last night it really started to bog down with 512 MB. I actually had to bust out the ol' PowerBook.


Havn't had any problems however with Adium, Firefox, and iTunes all going.