I have a macbook and plan on upgrading the 1gb of memory to 2GB. I want to leave the option open to upgrade later. I want to buy a 2gb stick and use that but may not actually upgrade any further thus leaving an open RAM slot. Is this going to have negative consequences on my systems performance?
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Is it a bad idea not to use both RAM slots>
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No, there is nothing wrong with leaving a ram slot empty.
However, why would you? You already have some ram so leave in what you can and put in the 2Gb with it giving you even more ram for no added cost. Unless of course you were planning on selling the existing ram.
However, why would you? You already have some ram so leave in what you can and put in the 2Gb with it giving you even more ram for no added cost. Unless of course you were planning on selling the existing ram.
i plan on doing the same thing, but leaving in one 512mb chip...for 2.5gb, and making do with that for a few months til i see the need (if at all) to go to 4gb
The dual channeling is handled by the chipset memory controller completely independent of the OS.
true. I forget that macs use pc hardware found in everyday windows pcs, i wasnt talking of OS anyway. I meant computers that you can install Windows on usually have dual channeling now days.
