How much RAM is recommended for the MB?

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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...

 

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.

 

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

 

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...

 

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!!!

 

2GB should be plenty.

 

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

 

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.