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RAM/Internet & Audio to TV

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My folks have a MacBook Pro made in 2009. Lately loading sites on the Net has been slow. They took it to an Apple store, the guy ran diagnostics, and he advised increasing RAM above the 2GB it came with. Does that seem like proper advice?

Second, because their Pro was made in 2009 they can't get audio to the TV through the HDMI and adapter. Can they get audio by hooking an AV line from the earphone jack to the AV audio inputs in their TV?

Thanks all.
 
VFN said:
My folks have a MacBook Pro made in 2009. Lately loading sites on the Net has been slow. They took it to an Apple store, the guy ran diagnostics, and he advised increasing RAM above the 2GB it came with. Does that seem like proper advice?

Second, because their Pro was made in 2009 they can't get audio to the TV through the HDMI and adapter. Can they get audio by hooking an AV line from the earphone jack to the AV audio inputs in their TV?

Thanks all.
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Very good advice. An SSD would give it a good speed boost too.

If the TV has a 1/8" jack you should be good to go. If not, you might need an adapter. But it all really depends on if the TV can handle HDMI with a separate audio input and if you can get a compatible audio cable.
 
VFN said:
My folks have a MacBook Pro made in 2009. Lately loading sites on the Net has been slow. They took it to an Apple store, the guy ran diagnostics, and he advised increasing RAM above the 2GB it came with. Does that seem like proper advice?
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Impossible to say given what was provided. There are other threads that cover how to determine if one can benefit from more RAM.
 
Well, my parents bought 8GB of RAM so when they install it we'll see. I know very little about computers but I was surprised that RAM could cause slow site loading. The Apple guy said that the Mac firmware updates may be causing the RAM problem which I can see, but I just have trouble believing that's what's going on.
 
VFN said:
Well, my parents bought 8GB of RAM so when they install it we'll see. I know very little about computers but I was surprised that RAM could cause slow site loading. The Apple guy said that the Mac firmware updates may be causing the RAM problem which I can see, but I just have trouble believing that's what's going on.
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If sites are loading slowly it could be slow internet speeds, but with that little RAM upgrading it is sure to help, than you go from there.
 
It isn't slow internet as I was able to do a side-by-side with an Ipad. I'll get back when they install the RAM.

Thanks for the replies. :)
 
Well, they put it in themselves and say it's working better, so I suppose RAM was an issue. We'll see if things continue to work.

Thanks for all the replies. Great resource here.
 
simon48 said:
If the TV has a 1/8" jack you should be good to go. If not, you might need an adapter. But it all really depends on if the TV can handle HDMI with a separate audio input and if you can get a compatible audio cable.
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Are you saying that a TV may not accept audio input if a HDMI is being used at the same time even if that HDMI is not supplying sound as is the the case here?

Thanks.
 
VFN said:
Are you saying that a TV may not accept audio input if a HDMI is being used at the same time even if that HDMI is not supplying sound as is the the case here?

Thanks.
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It might not, it should, but the way TVs are made these days it could be fussy.
 
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