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Avoid Crucial memory on the Unibody

philosopherdog said:
As I said in my original post, you may have had luck with Crucial ram yourself, but if you do a bit of a search on line you will find plenty of compatibility issues with the new MB and Crucial sticks. In my case, the MB ran great, but I had that intermittent black screen when trying to wake the MB from sleep. So, if you rarely put your MB to sleep, you might not even know that your ram is incompatible. I didn't mean to imply that Crucial was the only brand that is still showing incompatibilities with MB, many ram brands still are showing problems. So beware. Crucial stands behind their product. I picked sticks guaranteed compatible with the new MB, and they were not. These are not "defective" chips; they are incompatible ones. If you are buying ram be absolutely certain you are buying from someone you can return it to, and test it for a couple of weeks, especially waking from sleep before you can be certain the chips you have are actually 100% compatible. Personally I'm surprised we are still seeing incompatibilities especially with a big "reliable" brand like Crucial. There's frankly no excuse.
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Mine sleeps all the time. I barely ever shut it down. You can find people complaining about anything on the internet as people barely ever go online to say "yup, it just works."

Anyways, this isn't really a Crucial thing, it's an Apple thing. They set the timing limitations too strict.
 
philosopherdog said:
Just tried to do an upgrade using CRUCIAL MEMORY 2G DDR3-1066 UNBUFFERED NON-EC CT25664BC1067 204-PIN SODIMM. They told me it was guaranteed compatible. Sure sure. The unibody was intermittently crapping out waking from sleep. Seems like ram compatibility issues are still plaguing the new Macbook. Hey, maybe you have some Crucial and it's working, but there's plenty of people who have had it crap out the unibody. I'd avoid it. In fact, unless you really need the extra ram to run windows in virtual mode, I'd avoid the whole mess and stick with what ya got, unless you like hassles.
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I've always used Crucial memory on my Macs without a single problem. iMac G5, iMac Aluminum, PowerBook G4, MacBook (black), but I didn't get Crucial for my MacBook Aluminum. Decided to just go with Apple's memory upgrade when I ordered it. Glad I didn't use them now!
 
This maybe a little stupid, but why don't you guys upgrade RAMs when you purchase your computers? I understand the cost, but isn't that a hassle free way to have your computer upgraded?
 
At least four people said refrain from using Blanket Statements. What's wrong with that. OP got our attention, good dialog ensued. No problems.

I'll make a blanket statement too. NEVER trust a forum post as fact. For instance, I'm sure there are folks in this thread that never even used Crucial but are saying they did.

Forums should be used to discuss and once other resources are validated act. I'm just going off experience that started before the Internet when folks used to do this stuff with BBSs.

Ah, the good ol days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
:)
 
opinioncircle said:
This maybe a little stupid, but why don't you guys upgrade RAMs when you purchase your computers? I understand the cost, but isn't that a hassle free way to have your computer upgraded?
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As long as there is the guarantee of a replacement for any defective RAM I'd go with the cheaper option. I upgraded my Unibody two months ago and haven't noticed any problems. Paying the extra doesn't ensure any better performance.
 
Zazoh said:
At least four people said refrain from using Blanket Statements. What's wrong with that. OP got our attention, good dialog ensued. No problems.

I'll make a blanket statement too. NEVER trust a forum post as fact. For instance, I'm sure there are folks in this thread that never even used Crucial but are saying they did.

Forums should be used to discuss and once other resources are validated act. I'm just going off experience that started before the Internet when folks used to do this stuff with BBSs.

Ah, the good ol days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
:)
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:rolleyes:
 
yeah it's hassle free, but the cost is almost always the factor. Personally, when I bought my macbook last fall, the $1299 was already stretching my budget to the breaking point. I couldn't afford the RAM then. So I waited, and it got cheaper.
 
DoubleU said:
As long as there is the guarantee of a replacement for any defective RAM I'd go with the cheaper option. I upgraded my Unibody two months ago and haven't noticed any problems. Paying the extra doesn't ensure any better performance.
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+1

I upgraded my UMB and my Mini with Crucial 4GB kits (2 and 5 months) ago and haven't had a problem at all. Payed less and were both very easy to upgrade.
 
I do like Crucial's RAM, but I think there was an issue with some production. I think the production issue is over (like I would know exactly :p). I'll probably use crucial if I ever get another computer.
 
Mine works flawlessly... had it for 2 weeks now and see nothing but sweet sweet speed :D
 
Crucial memory is great

I have used Crucial memory in several computers, including my macbook. A couple of friends have it in their unibody macbook and pro.

To the poster who said just avoid the hassle and pay for it at time of ordering, have you looked at the ridiculous prices?
 
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