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8gb ram

Hi guys,
I'm also considering buying the baseline mid 2011 macbook pro 13 inch (budget constraints) through the apple store and upgrading ram to 8gb. Do you think I should order it with the upgrade or wait a few months and get the upgrade done somewhere else? p.s. I have no idea about computers, I'll find someone to do it for me. Does this jeopardize warranty?
thanks!
 
stdwest said:
Hi guys,
I'm also considering buying the baseline mid 2011 macbook pro 13 inch (budget constraints) through the apple store and upgrading ram to 8gb. Do you think I should order it with the upgrade or wait a few months and get the upgrade done somewhere else? p.s. I have no idea about computers, I'll find someone to do it for me. Does this jeopardize warranty?
thanks!
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DO NOT BUY THE 8GB FROM APPLE. They charge $200 to not give you 4GB and replace that with 8GB. Compare to Newegg where it's $60 for 8GB and you end up with 4GB to put in another PC. So that's $200 for 8GB or $60 for 12GB.

The RAM is user replaceable so there is NO worry about the warranty in this case.

It's stupid easy to change, like 8 screws for the bottom of the case then it pops off. Unclip the old sticks and place the new ones in the same way. I'm 100% sure I could walk my mom though the process over the phone - anyone should be able to do it by looking at ifixit.com
 
stdwest said:
Hi guys,
I'm also considering buying the baseline mid 2011 macbook pro 13 inch (budget constraints) through the apple store and upgrading ram to 8gb. Do you think I should order it with the upgrade or wait a few months and get the upgrade done somewhere else? p.s. I have no idea about computers, I'll find someone to do it for me. Does this jeopardize warranty?
thanks!
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Seriously, you can install it yourself without voiding the warranty, and don't buy it form Apple as it is twice as expensive if not more from them, for the same thing.

It's so easy to install RAM in a MBP, a caveman could do it. You shouldn't be afraid to try things yourself, it sucks to always depend on others to do things for you.

If you're scared, print these out: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-MacBook-Pro-13-Inch-Unibody-Early-2011-RAM/5117/1
 
Hi guys, thanks for the replies, I will not do any upgrade with the apple store then. I'll just do it myself!
 
If you do a lot of multitasking it is very much worth it. Same applies if you have any virtual machines running.

I went from 4gb to 8gb today as it happens, and it's made a huge difference, as my Win7 VM can now have 3gb to itself, leaving mac os with 5gb of its own.

If your machine starts to slow once lots of programs are open, the chances are that more RAM will help - in fact I am surprised how many people don't think it's a good idea.
 
windowstomac said:
If you do a lot of multitasking it is very much worth it. Same applies if you have any virtual machines running.

I went from 4gb to 8gb today as it happens, and it's made a huge difference, as my Win7 VM can now have 3gb to itself, leaving mac os with 5gb of its own.

If your machine starts to slow once lots of programs are open, the chances are that more RAM will help - in fact I am surprised how many people don't think it's a good idea.
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I actually do a lot of multitasking. one browser open with 20 tabs and a lot of other applications running simultaneously. I'm still thinking whether I should be headed to the macbook pro 15 inch base model which has a higher performance but the $550 price difference keeps me thinking not only twice, three times.
 
I have 8GB in my 2011 i7 MBP but want 16GB now:)

Using it for work today with 3 VMWare's open I had 48MB free with nearly all 8GB used up

Still ran great tho ;)
 
stdwest said:
I actually do a lot of multitasking. one browser open with 20 tabs and a lot of other applications running simultaneously. I'm still thinking whether I should be headed to the macbook pro 15 inch base model which has a higher performance but the $550 price difference keeps me thinking not only twice, three times.
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If you're multitasking a bunch of non intensive programs, you'll see a much bigger boost from 8gb ram + SSD, than a GPU + better processor. 8gb ram all but eliminates the need to use your hard drive for overflow... Personally I keep around 10 apps open at all times leaving about 2.5GB free (1GB for OS, 2GB in use, and 2.5GB "cached")
 
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