Hello all,
I read the ram guide but I still have a few unanswered questions. The macbook version I own is the one that came out right after leopard's release when the macbooks recieved the santa rosa update. I got the machine without customizing it. I was a little price sensitive at the time and I didnt feel that I would need extra ram for what planned on using it for. After owning it for nearly 8 months and buying a variety of programs and filling up the HD a bit (I have 23GB left on my 160GB HD.) I have decided that the time has come to get 4 GB. It seems like every time I use safari and iTunes for like 45 minutes I have like 17 MB free when I check istat pro in dashboard.
I have a few questions:
-Is there a difference b/w PC2-5300 and PC2-5400? Which would be ideal for my machine?
-Does the Cas Latency make much of a difference?
-After taking a look at the following image, which of the three options would you knowledgeable mac gurus out there recommend? I see that the gskill is the only one with the Cas Latency and timing information...what about the Kingston?
-It appears that the two Kingston items are nearly identical in terms of price, specs, model number. One lists a lifetime warranty and the other doesn't. They have different item#'s and that seems about it. Am I over analyzing this or is there really no difference?
-Any other suggestions? I mainly want the highest quality ram without paying an obscene price for it. I want to keep it at or below $100 for the upgrade. It is not critical that I go through newegg, I have heard good things about them so I figured I'd look there 1st.
I really appreciate any and all advice. It will help my purchase decision greatly.
-Ed
I read the ram guide but I still have a few unanswered questions. The macbook version I own is the one that came out right after leopard's release when the macbooks recieved the santa rosa update. I got the machine without customizing it. I was a little price sensitive at the time and I didnt feel that I would need extra ram for what planned on using it for. After owning it for nearly 8 months and buying a variety of programs and filling up the HD a bit (I have 23GB left on my 160GB HD.) I have decided that the time has come to get 4 GB. It seems like every time I use safari and iTunes for like 45 minutes I have like 17 MB free when I check istat pro in dashboard.
I have a few questions:
-Is there a difference b/w PC2-5300 and PC2-5400? Which would be ideal for my machine?
-Does the Cas Latency make much of a difference?
-After taking a look at the following image, which of the three options would you knowledgeable mac gurus out there recommend? I see that the gskill is the only one with the Cas Latency and timing information...what about the Kingston?
-It appears that the two Kingston items are nearly identical in terms of price, specs, model number. One lists a lifetime warranty and the other doesn't. They have different item#'s and that seems about it. Am I over analyzing this or is there really no difference?
-Any other suggestions? I mainly want the highest quality ram without paying an obscene price for it. I want to keep it at or below $100 for the upgrade. It is not critical that I go through newegg, I have heard good things about them so I figured I'd look there 1st.
I really appreciate any and all advice. It will help my purchase decision greatly.
-Ed
