Macbook need more RAM?

[maclover007]

my bro has 1g of ram on his macbook. he often plays "Second Life" and it gets slow after a bit of playing. would buying more RAM help the preformance?
thanks in advance

 

[David G.]

my bro has 1g of ram on his macbook. he often plays "Second Life" and it gets slow after a bit of playing. would buying more RAM help the preformance?
thanks in advance

Yes it would. Have him get 2 gigs total.

 

[joehack]

From my point of view there are 2 things:

1. The 3d capabilities of the graphics adaptor is pretty poor on a MB.
2. Of course more memory is always beneficial. Like all Unix like os, OSX loves memory.

Jochen

 

[Maui]

Going from 1 to 2 is probably a good idea, but before spending the money he might want to install iStat or another program/widget that tracks memory. The data can tell you exactly whether you are having memory issues -- you get a report that looks something like this:

 

[maclover007]

thanks very much. i will get him 2 buy some.