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Do i need a RAM upgrade with lion?

frenchamp

frenchamp

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A lot of people who have ben trying out lion say that 4 GB RAM is a minimum. I'm planning to update to lion as soon as it releases and i really dont want my 1 year old mbp(see signature) to feel sluggish. So the question is:Will i need to upgrade my RAM to 8GB?
 
No, you will not. Most anyone that is running Lion right now would need at least 4GB anyway. 4GB should still be plenty.
 
You could always just stay with SL. I doubt it'll feel sluggish by any means if you upgrade. However, RAM upgrades are the cheapest ones you could do to any computer nowadays, given the low price of RAM.

To answer the question: no, you don't need to. If you feel it goes sluggish, I would suggest you do. But first, I'd wait and see how it turns out.
 
If you only had 2GB, then I might suggest it. But unless you do any sort of memory intensive tasks, 4GB should be just fine.
 
You should be fine with 4.

As for me, I've decided to up it to 6.

Lion + 1080p HD playback might be more demanding. I'm not sure how it works out, whether big HD files need more RAM for better playback in full-screen mode, but just in case. And it's good to extend the life of my notebook. It's probably the last one I'll ever need to own.
 
Require, no, but it's cheap enough you should probably get it anyway at some point in the future.

And if you deal with Parallels or VMWare Fusion, you should have gotten it yesterday.
 
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