Has anyone upgraded from 4gb to 6gb ram?

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  1. auhlixer, May 14, 2009

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    I have a 2.4ghz MacBook that I run Fusion on for AutoCad and on the OS X side of this gets bogged down.

    Also know that having a 2gb/4gb combo will disable dual channel so those who have upgraded to 6gb have you seen a improvement and is it worth it?

    Currently running Windoze 7 Ultimate 64bit for AutoCad 2010 64bit w/ 1gb ram allocated for it in VMWare w/ 3D turned off. This leaves me 3gb for OS X but i have to have Mail, RSS Reader and iTunes turned off.

    Any suggestions?
     
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  2. ddeadserious, May 14, 2009

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    Honestly, for AutoCAD word, you ought you install Windows natively and just boot to it when needing AutoCAD. Fusion is a great program, but AutoCAD is pretty intense to be running virtually, you'd see a great performance increase in just installing Vista as an alternate OS. Plus, that's free, and 4GB DDR3 RAM chips are quite expensive still.

    No matter how much RAM I allocate to my VM, VMWare takes up more than that and it ends up bogging down my system as well.
     
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  3. auhlixer, May 14, 2009

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    I've done the bootcamp thing but have lost hard drives 2 different times from it :(
     
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  4. sosaysiburke, May 14, 2009

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    why? i install bootcamp all the time just to play around the delete it and i have never lost any data, besides the windows side.
     
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  5. peepboon, May 14, 2009

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    Why don't u try emailing crucial for their advice? Just a thought...
     
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  6. auhlixer, May 14, 2009

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    probably just gonna build a windoze pc and setup a raid i can use for timemachine and kill 2 birds with one stone
     
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