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Corsair, Crucial or Kingston Ram for MBP

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skier777

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I was just about to sell my 2010 i7 2.66 MBP and upgrade to the 2011 when it fell off of my desk last weekend damaging one corner. It works perfectly, but the value obviously is way less now than before. Since im going to hold onto the laptop, i may as well get the most out of it as possible, so i plan to install 8GB of ram.
I have an amazon gift card so ill buy it there; it seems as if they have three reasonable choices.

Kingston: http://tiny.cc/RAM3
Crucial: http://tiny.cc/RAM2
Corsair: http://tiny.cc/RAM1

If you have had any experience with these, especially the 8gb models in the new MBP's could you comment on how its worked out for you.
Im lost as to which one will be the fastest, and best, so any help will be appreciated. Money is no object, since they all lie within 15 bucks of each other.
 
All three companies make good RAM as does G Skil. G Skil tends to be a bit better priced and receives great ratings at Newegg and on other forums.
 
i was just about to go buy the crucial, and the Prime option is gone. Looks like while i was waiting for replies, someone bought the last of them from amazon and the price went up by 8 bucks. Annoying but NBD, just waiting for it to arrive now, im interested to see the bump in speed it gives me; hopefully at startup and for CS5.

My next investments going to be a SSD, but i think ill wait a year till they become more mainstream and drop in price a bit.
 
skier777 said:
i was just about to go buy the crucial, and the Prime option is gone. Looks like while i was waiting for replies, someone bought the last of them from amazon and the price went up by 8 bucks. Annoying but NBD, just waiting for it to arrive now, im interested to see the bump in speed it gives me; hopefully at startup and for CS5.

My next investments going to be a SSD, but i think ill wait a year till they become more mainstream and drop in price a bit.
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Check Newegg.
 
I bought 2 of these, which ended up being less than the kit would have cost, even before when Amazon had them with prime.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KB21KA/ref=ox_ya_os_product

Came to almost exactly $100 with NY tax.

Im going to have my personal MBP upgrade day on thursday, but i couldn't care less about SJ's bday or what the 2011 MB looks like.
 
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In a laptop, RAM with identical specs will perform identically unless there's a problem. Brand name only affects support and chances of having a problem.

With the three you list there will be no difference. I'd say you're equally as likely to get good sticks from any of the three. Choose which is cheapest.
 
I have just installed 8gb of Kingston ram into my 13" MBP. No problems what so ever
 
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