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8GB with MacBook white

Pretty bad...since Lion it is not enough anymore.
I'm not able to run two VMs.

8 GB Ram would solve my problem...
 
micha899 said:
Pretty bad...since Lion it is not enough anymore.
I'm not able to run two VMs.

8 GB Ram would solve my problem...
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Then revert back to 10.6, unless Lion has something to offer, which you can't live without. For me, it is the other way around. Lion has taken away what I live with - Spaces and Exposé.
 
micha899 said:
Pretty bad...since Lion it is not enough anymore.
I'm not able to run two VMs.

8 GB Ram would solve my problem...
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I put 8 GB in my Late 2009 MacBook. I'm not sure about the earlier 2009 models, but I'd have to assume they too would except 8 GB of RAM. I was going to upgrade from 2 GB to 4 GB, but I found a pretty sweet deal for 8 GB so I figured I'd try it. I'm glad I did.
 
Jony Mac said:
I put 8 GB in my Late 2009 MacBook. I'm not sure about the earlier 2009 models, but I'd have to assume they too would except 8 GB of RAM. I was going to upgrade from 2 GB to 4 GB, but I found a pretty sweet deal for 8 GB so I figured I'd try it. I'm glad I did.
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You have a white Unibody MacBook, which uses DDR3 RAM and the chipset supports 8 GB RAM.
The white MacBook available in March 2009 was the 2008 MacBook, which is not the Unibody model and has DDR2 RAM and the chipset only supports 6 GB RAM.

Look at the link I provided in my first post.
 
simsaladimbamba said:
You have a white Unibody MacBook, which uses DDR3 RAM and the chipset supports 8 GB RAM.
The white MacBook available in March 2009 was the 2008 MacBook, which is not the Unibody model and has DDR2 RAM and the chipset only supports 6 GB RAM.

Look at the link I provided in my first post.
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Ahh, yes you are right. My apologies.
 
So far everything correctly.
I will upgrade to 6 GB I think and downgrade to Snow Leopard...

Thanks for help guys.
 
I might have to upgrade my 2010 Macbook to 8 GB of RAM sometime. right now it has 4 and works fine, would there be any difference in performance?
 
My Late 2008 Aluminium Macbook currently has DDR3 RAM in it (4GB).

The Crucial memory scanner says I have my max quota although I have heard you can get away with 6GB?

Are you saying on mine I could instlal 8GB?

And then the killer question - will 8GB be used or is there some caveat that only allows a max usage?

seems strange it'll recognise more RAM than it should do?!:confused:
 
Jesse813 said:
I might have to upgrade my 2010 Macbook to 8 GB of RAM sometime. right now it has 4 and works fine, would there be any difference in performance?
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Only in an application that needs the extra RAM. Think VM's, Photoshop, things like that. Normal day to day usage you won't even notice a difference.
 
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