is 8gb of ram worth it?

[BiggAW]

The thing with the MBA is that it has an SSD as standard. Using a swapfile on a regular HDD is bad because it wears out the disk, increases the probability of disk failure and it's slow. With an SSD you have none of these issues, thus making 2 GB of RAM on an Air less of a "limitation" than 4 GB of RAM on a Pro (given that the Pro has a regular HDD).

I mean, of course no page outs is better than having to use a swap file, but with an SSD there's no need to worry about it.

SSDs are still a lot slower than actual RAM.

 

[hafr]

SSDs are still a lot slower than actual RAM.

Black guys still have darker skin than white guys.

 

[twingo]

I need to work with Citavi under Windows. Just ordered 8 GB and a screwdriver and now i hope that Parallels will be satisfied with it.
I am praying for no more trouble while switching between MAC and Windows Tasks.

Yes!!!
It took me 10 Minutes to put in the 8 GB.
Everything works very well. Now i can keep my Windows Apps open all the time without loosing speed while working with the Mac Apps.

This is a big improvement and it wasn't expensive.

 

[Mac2Crack]

Piece of cake....

Bumped mine to 8GB and it was so easy. Parallels runs much smoother Windows 7, XP, and Umbuntu all processing. Two sticks of Lexar Ram $26.00 CDN at Futureshop.
Cheers