I'm trying to speed up my MacBook

[roof30]

Thanks for the info. Having checked Crucial, they still say that 4gb is the max RAM possible, but having done a bit of research I can see that a lot of people have upgraded to 8gb.

Think I'll scrap the upgrade to 8gb and just proceed with an SSD instead. Thanks all.

 

[GGJstudios]

Thanks for the info. Having checked Crucial, they still say that 4gb is the max RAM possible, but having done a bit of research I can see that a lot of people have upgraded to 8gb.

Think I'll scrap the upgrade to 8gb and just proceed with an SSD instead. Thanks all.

You can definitely use 8GB in your Mac, but whether you need 8GB is another matter. To determine if you can benefit from more RAM, launch Activity Monitor and click the System Memory tab at the bottom to check your page outs. Page outs are cumulative since your last restart, so the best way to check is to restart your computer and track page outs under your normal workload (the apps, browser pages and documents you normally would have open). If your page outs are significant (say 1GB or more) under normal use, you may benefit from more RAM. If your page outs are zero or very low during normal use, you probably won't see any performance improvement from adding RAM.

Mac OS X: Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor