Im on an older white macbook, and my maximum ram is 2gb, which I already have. I may just be grasping at imaginary things, but is there an external ram or anyway way at all to upgrade my mac's ram at all. i talked to apple and they won't modify my computer at all, so I am stuck with a somewhat slow computer. Any ideas? Thanks.
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Is your MacBook a Core Solo/Core Duo model, or a Core 2 Duo model? If the latter, what is its graphics chipset (from Apple System Profiler)? You may have the ability to put two 2 gig chips in for 3.1 gb of available RAM.
Intel Core 2 Duo
Chipset Model: GMA 950
So does that mean that i can get up to 3.1 gb of ram then?
Chipset Model: GMA 950
So does that mean that i can get up to 3.1 gb of ram then?
Metuas
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I'm assuming that's a Mid-2007 MacBook - I believe that it supports up to 3.3 GB RAM.
I know Core 2 Duos can support 2 GB RAM sticks in each of the two slots. Even if you have 4GB of RAM, though, some will be constantly occupied by, I think it's the GMA 950 and other things, so only 3.3GB of it is accessible.
I know Core 2 Duos can support 2 GB RAM sticks in each of the two slots. Even if you have 4GB of RAM, though, some will be constantly occupied by, I think it's the GMA 950 and other things, so only 3.3GB of it is accessible.
According to crucial.com's system scan, I am at my full capacity for ram and identifies my mac as MacBook 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (13-inch White). So are you sure that I can support more RAM. Thank you so much for your help so far.
iToaster
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Your computer is able to support 3 GB (and a little extra, but that's the hardware being unable to recognize the rest of 4 GB that you could put in, so there's nothing you can do about that). 2 GB isn't really a horrible amount of RAM to have, and odds are it really isn't slowing your computer down too much (as long as you're a fairly average user). I'd go for buying a single 2 GB stick and throwing it in and the other 2 GB stick isn't really worth it if it's just going to act almost identically to a 1 GB stick.