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4g ram worth it(MBP)
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If you use parallels or fusion...absolutely. Photoshop or any of the Adobe suite...for sure.
Pro tools or Final Cut, yup.
Safari, iTunes, occasional firefox and iPhoto from time to time? Won't notice.
That being said, I maxed mine (VM Fusion) and think now is the time to do it if the pricing of ddr2 follows a path anything like ddr did when ddr2 came out. (ddr3 is not too far off).
There is no such thing as having too much ram. And a MBP is worthy of maxing it.
I say go for it.
If you use parallels or fusion...absolutely. Photoshop or any of the Adobe suite...for sure.
Pro tools or Final Cut, yup.
Safari, iTunes, occasional firefox and iPhoto from time to time? Won't notice.
That being said, I maxed mine (VM Fusion) and think now is the time to do it if the pricing of ddr2 follows a path anything like ddr did when ddr2 came out. (ddr3 is not too far off).
There is no such thing as having too much ram. And a MBP is worthy of maxing it.
I say go for it.
For some.
P.S.: nice thread with great explanations.
Next time, put some effort into your post when asking for help.
When you compare the cost of 4GB of RAM today to the cost of a MBP, the answer is absolutely.
For some.
P.S.: nice thread with great explanations.
your response was 2 words. complain some more plz.
You won't regret your MBP man, mine is a month old and I love it!
I haven't upgraded my ram yet(still 2 gigs), maybe I'll do so soon. With the stuff I am doing now I don't really need it yet. For for $80 might as well right?
Hope you'll enjoy your MBP, oh and buy aftermarket, don't buy ram from apple!
I haven't upgraded my ram yet(still 2 gigs), maybe I'll do so soon. With the stuff I am doing now I don't really need it yet. For for $80 might as well right?
Hope you'll enjoy your MBP, oh and buy aftermarket, don't buy ram from apple!
Compared with 2gb of ram, 4gb does take more time to sleep and wake.
Sleep (default is safe sleep, writes memory content to HD) is still way faster with 4gb of ram on the Mac OS side than windows machine with 2gb.
Sleep (default is safe sleep, writes memory content to HD) is still way faster with 4gb of ram on the Mac OS side than windows machine with 2gb.
Take a look at this article from MacWorld if you want to tweak exactly what the laptop will do when it goes to sleep. It can be modified to sleep/wake much faster.
http://www.macworld.com/article/53471/2006/10/sleepmode.html
You can never have enough RAM,, my BMB holds 4, that's what it got, Haven't seen a spinning beach ball yet, Crucial RAM is the best IMHO,$112 for 4 GB, don't even think about it, just do it
It's so cheap you'd be stupid not to buy it?
I dunno. Just because I can afford to buy something doesn't mean that it is always the logical solution. People should consider their current usage before putting more upgrades into something that depreciates so quickly..
I dunno. Just because I can afford to buy something doesn't mean that it is always the logical solution. People should consider their current usage before putting more upgrades into something that depreciates so quickly..