I am interested in the 2.2ghz macbook, and adding 4gb of ram to it. I will be running a VM of XP, as well as Visual Studio 2005. I may also be running photoshop or dreamweaver in OSX, as well as having safari/camino open. With these applications, would a Macbook with 4gb be enough?
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MacBook for development, 4gb ram?
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you don't really have a choice since 4gb is the max for the macbook, well not technically, but 4gb chips (I know i'm not using the right word) have yet to become available.
i just want something more mobile than a mini, which is what i have now, but i want to make sure it can keep up with my demands
For anyone running Virtual Machines (either with Parallels of VMware) in Leopard, I would recommend a min. of 2GB of RAM.
Since RAM is so cheap these days go for 4GB. I got 4GB for $106 from OWC (macsales.com) and I got another 4GB from newegg just a week ago.
I have tried running XP on Parallels with just 1GB RAM. It will work but it slows the entire Leopard system to a crawl.
With 4GB, I've been able to run XP with Parallels and run Photoshop CS3 on Mac concurrently and still have over 1GB of RAM left over.
I also have a macbook 2.2 gz intel c2d with 320GB of HD
Since RAM is so cheap these days go for 4GB. I got 4GB for $106 from OWC (macsales.com) and I got another 4GB from newegg just a week ago.
I have tried running XP on Parallels with just 1GB RAM. It will work but it slows the entire Leopard system to a crawl.
With 4GB, I've been able to run XP with Parallels and run Photoshop CS3 on Mac concurrently and still have over 1GB of RAM left over.
I also have a macbook 2.2 gz intel c2d with 320GB of HD
