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Ram upgrade worth it on 2.53 GHz i5 Late 2010 Macbook pro?

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Atothendrew24

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I have a 2.53 GHz i5 Late 2010 Macbook pro with 4gigs of ram preinstalled and I am interested in upgrading to 8gigs. I go to Arizona State University as a CS major so I do a lot of programming and am constantly on my mac. My question is whether or not I will see a significant performance increase with upgrading my macbook? Anyone who has done this want to share their stories?

Thanks for any replies or advice.
 
Since you can do it for ~$55-60, why not?

It'll help with multi-tasking and with running VMs, so if you do either, go for it.
 
It's a VERY worthwhile upgrade in my opinion - at least for my uses. I run the full Final Cut Suite and a VM.

I saw a tremendous performance increase.
 
Its a very worthwhile upgrade. I have the same computer with you, and even for very intensive task's, this computer is no slouch. The ram upgrade will prolong the life of your machine.
 
Kingston is good, Crucial, G.Skill, Corsair, Samsung . . .

You can use 1333 MHz RAM (it'll still run at 1067 MHz), so get whatever is cheapest. I've got Crucial, but RAM is frankly a commodity.
 
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