actually it can only utilize 3 gigs of ram... it will detect and tell you that you have 4 gigs installed but its just to ease your mind... only 3 gigs can be used.
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4gb vs 8gb (osx and win 7)
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actually it can only utilize 3 gigs of ram... it will detect and tell you that you have 4 gigs installed but its just to ease your mind... only 3 gigs can be used.
My 15" i7 runs Win7 Pro 64bit extremely well. Recognizes all 4g of my ram.
It is a battery hog in Win 7 however.
Probably because of the unswitchable graphics in windows. Wonder if someone will come up with a solution to that...
FWIW, I went ahead and sprung for eight gigs, and it's very nice if you spend your day running Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign concurrently (I assume the same holds true for video/audio/etc. stuff too, or maybe multiple VMs). It is pretty much overkill if you're not doing that sort of stuff.