How much RAM is recommended for the MB?

[dominordelingua]

I'm going to be getting a MB soon. How much RAM do you think I'll need for college use? (running movies, email, word processing, keynote presentations)

 

[Fontenette Yo!]

Im in my dorm room right now for orientation as i type this. I got the one gig but you should just upgrade to the 2 gig yourself its cheaper and easy.

 

[fleshman03]

I'm going to be getting a MB soon. How much RAM do you think I'll need for college use? (running movies, email, word processing, keynote presentations)

2 gigs for just doing simple stuff and rare photo editing (real photo editing - Photoshop/GIMP stuff )

I have a 2.5 GhZ MBP stock (2 gigs) and I almost never need more. There was only once or twice when I was working with really large files.

Besides, you can always upgrade in a year or two when common applications will use up more ram.

 

[krye]

2G minimum. I would highly recommend dropping the cash and just maxing out the RAM.

 

[Paperflyer]

I use VMWare Fusion on my MacBook. If you are using more than two operating systems in parallel, you would want to have more than 2 Gb.

Hence, I have 4 Gb, which is arguably overkill for a mere 2.1 GHz MacBook, but it was sooo cheap...

 

[iTronz]

For general use such as word processing, movies, music ect I would get 2GB. If you plan on running virtual machines and running apps like photoshop then get 4GB as it is pretty cheap for ram these days.

 

[bmms8]

can someone please clarify that a merom macbook can only hold up to 3 gigs? i bought my macbook in august of last year. it is a 2.0 C2D.

 

[fleshman03]

can someone please clarify that a merom macbook can only hold up to 3 gigs? i bought my macbook in august of last year. it is a 2.0 C2D.

I'm new to Macs so I'm not 100% sure, but this wikipedia says it is "useable" up to 3.25. It sounds right that it would be able to address 3 gigs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbook

 

[logana]

can someone please clarify that a merom macbook can only hold up to 3 gigs? i bought my macbook in august of last year. it is a 2.0 C2D.

The answer is here on this forum

http://guides.macrumors.com/Understanding_Intel_Mac_RAM

It can hold 4 GB but cannot address all of it...

 

[machacker]

Will Snow Leopard or a future version of OSX be able to handle all 4 GB? I have 4 and I want it to use all of it!!!

 

[AppleFan360]

I'm going to be getting a MB soon. How much RAM do you think I'll need for college use? (running movies, email, word processing, keynote presentations)

2GB should be plenty.

 

[dominordelingua]

would buying the baseline and then upgrading it myself void my applecare warranty?

 

[Aztec]

would buying the baseline and then upgrading it myself void my applecare warranty?

Nope! Apple made it so the RAM is easily user-replaceable

 

[GuyOnTheCouch22]

i would agree with get 2gb for now and upgrade to 4gb later. i just bought a blackbook last week and maxed it out to 4gb but now i wish i used that money towards applecare instead b/c although its fast im sure i could get away with 2gb for at least the first year.