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Corsair 16GB Memory $420.00 now in stock

dia3olik said:
That's plain wrong.
You are quite rude in your assumptions and you ignore some basic principles...
the 2011 MBPs are VERY fast and the only bottleneck (in its standard config) are the RAM and HDD.
I use it with 8gb with AfterEffects and Premiere, if I open and use them one at a time they are fast as they were on my Nehalem Mac Pro.
If I open both (and only use ONE at a time!) the mac becomes really slow and my swap increases up to 6gb...
IT IS CLEARLY A RAM LIMITATION, so having spent about 3000euro (mbp+ssd)...300eur for 16gb seems a VERY CHEAP upgrade!!!
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yeah? so your telling me that between having 12gb ram and 16 gb ram ull be getting "REAL" performance?, i agree that 8gb can be upgraded a little bit if you work a lot, but dont get me that 16gb ram is up to the macbook pro processor. 10gb ok maybe, 12 will never be used imo except your really but really its unnecessary.

Show me 1 pic of having 14gb ram active / wired on a macbook pro and a activity monitor showing the process and mem distribution. obiously on a daily basis use, not having 200+apps opened
 
Ant.honey said:
Damn. I spent way too much money at OWC then with their 16gb kit.

I'm using the latest MBP as a stop gap while I wait for the new Mac Pro. I use every bit of the 16 gb of ram. 15" 2.3ghz.
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how much did you pay might i ask?

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getting intense in hear....you would think ram by its vey nature would make things run better right? LOL
 
Maschil said:
how much did you pay might i ask?

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getting intense in hear....you would think ram by its vey nature would make things run better right? LOL
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I paid $879.99 on Sept. 12th. I see that today it is at $729.99...

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I'm going to get on OWC's live chat and explain that in about 2 weeks the price of the ram I bought is $150 less. I also just got another order from them last night. Wonder if they'll do anything for me.
 
Ant.honey said:
I paid $879.99 on Sept. 12th. I see that today it is at $729.99...

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I'm going to get on OWC's live chat and explain that in about 2 weeks the price of the ram I bought is $150 less. I also just got another order from them last night. Wonder if they'll do anything for me.
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oh man!!!!! THATS enough to get another macbook LOL
 
bearcats087 said:
chances are if you are working with such large data sets you need a bigger screen and much better processor with a stronger gpu so chances are the 13 wont be the one
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All of this is relative...

Remember we were all on c2d not long ago...

I can eat 7 of my 8 up with just PS, if I were to open an AI file that would do it.

When I run VM's Windows gets 4 and Linux gets 3

Now take the PS file an AI file turn on Windows

Play iTunes and have couple browser windows open 16 would be gone..

or leave ten both off and start playing with video and have VM's running..

small form does not necessary mean small work or small screen..
 
xpcker said:
is it worth it ant?
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I think so, no complaints certainly. It was a lot of money but seems to be working very well.

I'm in line at the chat waiting to get connected with customer service.

@Maschil oh man!!!!! THATS enough to get another macbook LOL

True, kinda. All in all setting the MBP up to work as a desktop as I need it to is about half of what I'll spend when the new MP comes out.

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I have to say, having purchased 'cheap' generic Ram in the past - not sure I would again. Loads of problems and back and forth. That said, I might have tried the Corsair at that price vs the OWC price, once.

I'd like to hear other users experiences with the Corsair 16GB kit once they've had it awhile.
 
xpcker said:
yeah? so your telling me that between having 12gb ram and 16 gb ram ull be getting "REAL" performance?, i agree that 8gb can be upgraded a little bit if you work a lot, but dont get me that 16gb ram is up to the macbook pro processor. 10gb ok maybe, 12 will never be used imo except your really but really its unnecessary.

Show me 1 pic of having 14gb ram active / wired on a macbook pro and a activity monitor showing the process and mem distribution. obiously on a daily basis use, not having 200+apps opened
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I could show you that easily working with photoshop and raw photography programs. I don't need 200+ apps open when I can show you in two applications how your memory can reach that easily. Managing your photos and then closing programs brings them back to life but you must understand that many professionals yes even up to 64gbs of ram.
 
Ack. Would have loved to say OWC hooked me up, but they didn't. I was past the price adjustment period. Had my dates mixed up, but still...I've spent over $1600 with them in a month. Bummer they couldn't do something for a good customer. Not like it's the first time I ordered from them. I need another online shop like them. Any suggestions?

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Oh, for the doubters of the usefulness of 16GB of ram on a MBP, you're kidding yourself. I too can easily use it all without trying.
 
xpcker said:
is not that the world is bigger than me. Tomshardware have great comparisson of 8-16gb ram benchmarks.


The point is that, if you have a macbook pro, according to my perspective, buying it 16gb ram is worthless because the processor cant keep up to it.

You can be the pro as the hell u want (or call it as u like), but, for me, spending between 60 and 400 bucks just for waiting on 1 hour and 50 min of encoding its worthless. The program will work as fast as the processor and the arquitechture of the management of proc/ram can do.

If i had the bucks to have a xeon 8 core, 16gb justifies, otherwise, its just a troll conduct and who has it bigger thing.
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Geesh, I not sure how to respond. (so I won't) :D
 
mac jones said:
Uh, don't you think yesterday is still a live topic? I don't know.

I need an aspirin.
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The English this poster uses, and the kind of message this user made, reminds of spamming posts, though the poster has made a lot of posts already and doesn't seem to be a spammer, yet, though it maybe is just bad English.
 
bearcats087 said:
16gb is utterly useless on the 13
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Says the person that payed an additional $300 for a very small spec bump for their processor.

Just because you don't need 16gb, doesn't mean that NOBODY needs 16gb.

The MBP needs 4 RAM slots. 16gb of RAM for under $100... :D
 
GermanyChris said:
So you can carry two computers?
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lol....I GUESS... i would rather have two separate ones... but the beauty is in the eye of the beholder... lOL I LIKE to keep my mac separate from my pc... lOL don't want to spread virus to my mac... JK love ya guys (windows people)
 
Maschil said:
lOL don't want to spread virus to my mac
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You won't. Really.

There are currently no viruses for Mac OS X in public circulation, only a handful of trojans and other malware, which have to be installed manually via entering the administrator password.
The only anti-virus you need to protect your Mac is education and common sense.
Also know, that the term "virus" is often used to refer to other kinds of malware, but there are differences, which you can find out by reading the following:
Mac Virus/Malware Info by GGJstudios​
 
since this thread started, it's gone down another $20. When it hits $199, I'm in :D

I chew up RAM like crazy. I like having 50 safari tabs open, I like running 30 programs at once, and I ain't compromising on RAM.

All I want for Christmas this year is a Crucial M4 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAM for my MBP 17 2.3+Thunderbolt Display!
 
I'm not here to criticise someones choice to upgrade to 16GB of RAM for me the more the better!
But for me it's not worth it if I'm honest, and if I was you I would have spent the money on the SSD now I know you are going to mention the fact that you have 1TB worth of data but I feel thats a little irresponsible to be carrying around that amount of data on your HDD, you would be better off investing in a Thunderbolt drive and NAS to backup with.

It just seems a little waisted on a system that only uses the intel i5, and a built in intel HD3000 graphics card, and to be completely honest I think thats where this hole idea of using more RAM than anyone else full's apart because with that config by default you're already losing 500MB of RAM thats just waisted on the graphics, so why not get a 15"/17" Macbook pro with a dedicated graphics card and then upgrading to 8GB RAM with SSD and wait for the price of 16GB to go down even more, I think your real world performance would be much better off and you would still be able to backup all of you data using the thunderbolt drive, your data would be much more secure as you can backup your backup.

But thats just me. Other than that congrats on the upgrade! mate :D
 
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