$68 for 8 gigs of memory

[DarwinOSX]

I wanted to boost my MacBook Pro labtop RAM from 4GB to 8GB. I looked at two sites:

1. Apple: They wanted £320 ($525)

2. Crucial: They wanted £80 ($131)

I went for Crucial.

Apple charges $200 to go to 8 GB in the US. I wonder if your conversion is correct. Either that or they charge a lot more in the UK.

 

[edifyingGerbil]

Apple charges $200 to go to 8 GB in the US. I wonder if your conversion is correct. Either that or they charge a lot more in the UK.

I think Apple has more overheads in Europe, being a foreign company and all, plus they have to deal with import duties and the higher sales tax in the UK (currently 20% and no country in the EU is allowed to have it lower than 15%).

Also don't really pay attention to exchange rates as they don't tell you how much a person is actually paying in THEIR country, simply what you would be paying in your country (that has a different currency)

for instance, just imagine it as being $200 but with lots of sales tax added on, so it would be $320. $320 will buy you in america the same things as £320 in the UK, however £320 in the US will buy you a LOT more than $320 in the UK.

Fiat currencies really suck, and it doesn't help that the world reserve currency is the US dollar, thus making a lot of currencies artificially high or low.

 

[rwd hero]

Just a little update, i got my new memory in and my computer is amazing now. I have about 10 tabs open in safari, twitter, my calendar, email, itunes, and handbreak all open and running any i haven't seen a beachball in days. Now all i need is for the 500 gig SSD's to drop in price ($1200, really?) and i will have a real screamer!

 

[Trauma1]

Just a little update, i got my new memory in and my computer is amazing now. I have about 10 tabs open in safari, twitter, my calendar, email, itunes, and handbreak all open and running any i haven't seen a beachball in days. Now all i need is for the 500 gig SSD's to drop in price ($1200, really?) and i will have a real screamer!

That's funny. I've had in mine for several days now and I honestly do not see any difference. I still get the beachball with the usual suspects. I'm not complaining though as it's not terribly bothersome.

 

[jclardy]

That's funny. I've had in mine for several days now and I honestly do not see any difference. I still get the beachball with the usual suspects. I'm not complaining though as it's not terribly bothersome.

Really? on my 2010 15" i7 I have chrome with 10 tabs, After Effects CS5 with a project open, iTunes, and VMWare Fusion running Windows 7 with 2GB of RAM allotted to it. Still have 2 GB of RAM free, no beach ball's anywhere and everything is super responsive.

Is your hard drive near capacity? Whenever my mac gets to around < 30GB free it tends to beach ball a lot more.

But I bought my RAM from Newegg about 5-6 months ago, and it cost me $160. Unfortunately it had errors and I didn't realize it until around a month later so Newegg wouldn't take it back. G. Skill's RMA only took a week though so it ended up working out.

Honestly it feels like a brand new computer again, of course before I was getting a ton of page outs which was causing the sluggishness.

 

[Trauma1]

Is your hard drive near capacity? Whenever my mac gets to around < 30GB free it tends to beach ball a lot more.

This is probably it. I've had lots of Chrome tabs running while iTunes is playing. I don't think that has ever been a problem, but I still get the beachball mainly in iPhoto and other photo programs. I'm at a little less than 10% free space, and I'm going through my media, moving to an external, and looking for duplicates.

Funny because it almost seems like the cause is also the solution.

 

[sugarboylovemac]

I have updated my new mbp to 8 gigs. I bought Kingston (KTA-MB1333), costs $112. I have no problem about the ram and have checked with mentest and the result it perfect. Just make sure you buy the Kingston Ram is for MAC.

 

[marshallbedsaul]

It still angers me that I missed out on the Crucial 8 GB RAM for $75 a few months ago. I've been waiting for the price to drop down again. This Kingston deal is enticing, but I hate mail-in rebates.

same here man

 

[iMackPro]

i paid 140 for my 1333 Mhz 8 Gb ram from apple, and i didn't have to install it. it wasn't that much more so im glad i paid the extra couple of bucks to have mine preinstalled

 

[Trauma1]

Rebate arrived today. The check is actually the postcard they sent.

I did get an email update a few days ago saying it was sent out.