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g3m1nn1

macrumors member
Jan 12, 2009
34
0
Slovenia
mine:
Early 2008 17'' MBP. Upgraded HD to 500gb 7.200, next step is probably another 2gb RAM.
 

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DoFoT9

macrumors P6
Jun 11, 2007
17,586
100
London, United Kingdom
do you feel the ram boost?
yes, i do, only because i was using about 10GB RAM constantly but still had 4GB of physical RAM (my swap memory was making up for the lack of real memory) - so i had MASSIVE wait times for even opening up new tabs in safari sometimes, 5 min waits to open these were not uncommon. now everything is instant. :)

mine:
Early 2008 17'' MBP. Upgraded HD to 500gb 7.200, next step is probably another 2gb RAM.

happy 2000th post! awsome computer.
 

scoobydiesel

macrumors member
Aug 29, 2010
71
0
California
So doing this by an attachment, first time on the forum doing it this way.... Hope it worked out haha.

I do plan to upgrade sooner or later, running on my MBP(looking to get an iMac)
 

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jyax

macrumors newbie
Apr 19, 2009
20
2
Portland, OR
Was there a software update that let it accept 8GB without an issue, or did you have to do something? I am just curious, I don't really need that much memory, just for future reference.
No, I didn't have to do anything special. I was surprised it worked because everything I read said it'd only work with up to 6GB. And, in the case it would work, once you used over 4/6 GB it would lock up but that hasn't been the case.

Current uptime is 7 days and the only reason for the reboot is because of a system update. And it's regularly using more than 4gb at any given time.

The extra ram makes a huge difference if you're doing anything with virtual machine(s)

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iLoveiMacs

macrumors member
Jan 27, 2009
46
0
Missouri
17" MacBook Pro-Late 2007. Love it!

17" MacBook Pro-Late 2007. Love it! (Yes I realize I'm still on 10.6.1)
 

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