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8GB RAM or 7200RPM HDD for Macbook PRo?

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ZzBoG

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I wanna boost my 2.4 C2D Macbook Pro, but I can't decide which way to go..

I have enough money for either installing 8GB RAM (I have 4 now) into it, or changing stock 160GB 5400RPM HDD for a 320GB 7200RPM one.

Which will be more useful?

I have enough hdd space on external drives, so I'm upgrading for speed only.

I do film editing in FCP2 and some Photoshop and some web-browsing of course.
 
4 GB is the max that the MBP/MB/iMacs can support. The Mini can support up to 3 GB, and the MP can support up to 32 GB. 4 GB should be plenty.
 
The MBP cannot take more than 4RAM, (the top end desktop, the MP, can take more, obviously), ergo, go for the extra HDD.
Cheers
 
the current macs that aren't fully expandable cannot support more than 4Gb of ram at a single given time. you can have the os swap out ram but cannot access all 8GB at a single given time. So go for the HD.
 
Another case is virtualized environments. Run even one, and a lot in both environments, and 4GB feels constricting very fast.

It wasn't long ago that I thought 4GB was indulgent overkill. But that was before Parallels/VMWare became an everyday part of my life.
 
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