I got my 4GB of RAM today!

[JellyFish]

Popped it into my new 15 inch MacBook Pro and it rocks!!!! Woohoo!!!! If you have a couple of hundred bucks get the patriot ram in that deal somebody posted. The extra ram is sweet!

I will be using parallels to run linux and vista here and there for work so the extra ram is great. Plus it helps with everything else too. You can't have too much RAM.

 

[NYRngrs24]

battery

did you notice a hit on battery life?

 

[Jeremy Gray]

I got my 4gb of ram today too!
But my 17" MBP won't be here until tomorrow.
I'm getting pumped!

 

[mBurns]

What I'd give for 4 GB of RAM....

 

[aaronw1986]

I got my 4GB in the mail yesterday...to bad I don't know when my MBP is coming.

 

[MacDonaldsd]

What I'd give for 4 GB of RAM....

What id give for a MacBook Pro (sitting out the 6 week delay on the 7200 rpm Hard drive)


JellyFish do you notice a lot, the performance difference with the extra RAM ? as 2gb is a lot as it is.

 

[Habusho]

Come on don't just tease us. Does it perform any better? Any difference in battery useage? I'm thinking of getting 4gigs myself.

 

[iW00t]

did you notice a hit on battery life?

Yeap, battery life is now 1 hour shorter.

 

[island]

Yeap, battery life is now 1 hour shorter.

R O F L

 

[NYRngrs24]

ha

Thanks iWoot. hahah. seriously though, does ram take up much power? i would assume it would take a few minutes off, but have you guys noticed anything?

 

[gmisz88]

Is the 4gb ram necessary, and if so why? and is it easy to install and where do you purchase it cheap?

 

[NYRngrs24]

Is the 4gb ram necessary, and if so why? and is it easy to install and where do you purchase it cheap?

its really depends on what you do. if you do video editing and lots of graphics the 4gigs will help. but if your just doing the internet and some word processing, there isnt much of a point to have 4gigs.

 

[iW00t]

Thanks iWoot. hahah. seriously though, does ram take up much power? i would assume it would take a few minutes off, but have you guys noticed anything?

Of course it doesn't take that much off, but it just bring the point of such a question up.

How do you measure a few minutes difference in battery life anyway? It can be due to various factors, like the LCD being lit brighter due to different ambient light, or the wifi antennas sending out more retransmit packets due to a weak signal strength.... we never know.

 

[NYRngrs24]

good point. I just didnt know how much power ram takes. who knows it could of taken 30min off. lol. 4 gigs is a lot of ram.....and it will be nice to have. now this question is for iWoot. how much weight does it add? a pound or two? haha

 

[iW00t]

good point. I just didnt know how much power ram takes. who knows it could of taken 30min off. lol. 4 gigs is a lot of ram.....and it will be nice to have. now this question is for iWoot. how much weight does it add? a pound or two? haha

I just weighted it and found it to be 2kg heavier.

But strangely when I shut it down instead of putting it on sleep it gets a lot lighter. Guess 2 billion bits do weigh quite a lot.

 

[NYRngrs24]

hahahaha, those bytes do way a lot. thats why it was a concern for me. ha