4GB of RAM is awesome....

02-15-2009, 09:41 PM

My MacBook came with 1GB of RAM. Today I spent $59.99 and got 4GB of Kingston RAM. I'm BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZIN NOW!!!

02-15-2009, 09:47 PM

That cheap. Where did you get your ram from? Is Mac ram different from pc RAM? I want a mac! They look so cool.

02-15-2009, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by yellowgoat

That cheap. Where did you get your ram from? Is Mac ram different from pc RAM? I want a mac! They look so cool.

I got it from Fry's.

I am not sure if the RAM is different on PC Laptops, I've never looked into it.

RGD. · 02-15-2009, 10:18 PM

Ron

VirtualSmitty · 02-15-2009, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by yellowgoat

That cheap. Where did you get your ram from? Is Mac ram different from pc RAM? I want a mac! They look so cool.

Ram is dirt cheap, I updated my imac with this (except I paid 44 bucks when it was on sale

)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227251

Mac ram isn't special. The imacs use the same stuff the laptops use, otherwise nothing special.

02-15-2009, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

Ram is dirt cheap, I updated my imac with this (except I paid 44 bucks when it was on sale

)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227251

Mac ram isn't special. The imacs use the same stuff the laptops use, otherwise nothing special.

Thanks man! I guess I'll be updating my ram soon too!

02-15-2009, 09:48 PM

My new laptop for christmas has 4 GB in it. My old one had 500mg. It does seem that RAM does an amazing job. Its nearly 5+ times faster, even though the processor is less than twice as fast. But, then mine is PC. I thought MACs were already supposed to be perfect....so how could you get faster than perfect?

Cheers to you on your RAM

doctorcue · 02-15-2009, 09:59 PM

Silound · 02-15-2009, 10:14 PM

Not a mac expert by all means, however I think Mac's use the same RAM as PCs, now that they use the x86 architecture. Don't quote me on that, I could be very wrong.

webjunkie · 02-15-2009, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Silound

Not a mac expert by all means, however I think Mac's use the same RAM as PCs, now that they use the x86 architecture. Don't quote me on that, I could be very wrong.

As far as I know, PCs and Macs have always used the same kinds of RAM.

I'm only rocking 1GB and I don't think I'll outgrow it for a while yet. Though it would be nice to at least double it.

The Professor · 02-16-2009, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by webjunkie

As far as I know, PCs and Macs have always used the same kinds of RAM.

I'm only rocking 1GB and I don't think I'll outgrow it for a while yet. Though it would be nice to at least double it.

yup ... and it's been easily user-replaceable since the days of the G3, if not earlier. Hard drives are the same too (and easily replaceable on the MacBook).

sporting 1.5GB in my PowerBook G4. I can't wait until I get a new job and with it a new computer.

BORIStheBLADE · 02-15-2009, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Darrell

My MacBook came with 1GB of RAM. Today I spent $59.99 and got 4GB of Kingston RAM. I'm BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZIN NOW!!!

Did you look on the side of your old ram? See if it has a Mhz rating. Your new one is 667mhz, if the old one is less that is another reason why your new stuff is faster.

02-15-2009, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by BORIStheBLADE

Did you look on the side of your old ram? See if it has a Mhz rating. Your new one is 667mhz, if the old one is less that is another reason why your new stuff is faster.

The old RAM does not have the MHZ on it. Which is weird.

Seanohue · 02-15-2009, 10:25 PM

It sure is

02-15-2009, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Seanohue

It sure is

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Originally Posted by RGD.

Those are PC's though, they need 7 GB just to boot.

Seanohue · 02-15-2009, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Darrell

Those are PC's though, they need 7 GB just to boot.

Nah, just 1GB. Mine runs rock solid though, even OCed to 3.5GHz. I dare say I like Vista (64)

This is memory I'm running http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231145

SmoknTaz · 02-16-2009, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Darrell

Those are PC's though, they need 7 GB just to boot.

I'll take the 8 over my 2 anyday.

02-15-2009, 10:29 PM

Happy to hear you are enjoying it

I need to unlazy now and throw in my extra ram.

02-15-2009, 10:52 PM

Macs are designed to take advantage of RAM very well. AnandTech did a report on OS X caching a few years back. Granted that was while they were still using the IBM PowerPC architecture but I doubt that much has changed for memory management with the move to x86.

02-15-2009, 10:55 PM

I wish it would make PS load faster. It does a little faster, LOL.

02-15-2009, 09:41 PM	#1
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Ace$nyper Guest Posts: n/a	Re: 4GB of RAM is awesome.... Happy to hear you are enjoying it I need to unlazy now and throw in my extra ram.

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MithShrike Guest Posts: n/a	Re: 4GB of RAM is awesome.... Macs are designed to take advantage of RAM very well. AnandTech did a report on OS X caching a few years back. Granted that was while they were still using the IBM PowerPC architecture but I doubt that much has changed for memory management with the move to x86.

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