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RAM Upgrade for my MacBook Pro 13 inch

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turbocrow

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Nov 23, 2012
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I have 4gb atm and I would like to upgrade to 8gb to get more Vram for the HD4000. (I game in windows a wee bit and some games are on the verge of playing)

Would it be worth while ? cheers and thanks.
My mac is not slow at all tbh I am clean freak in the sense windows can not stay opened if I am not using them haha. So the Ram would be for the GPU only although in saying that in the summer time I will be editing videos (gaming reviews etc used to do it until school life took over and I sold my PC)

Thanks people :)

Edit: another thing that I forgot to mention is what ram to buy im from the UK and I am clueless ! please someone link me thanks for the comments btw :)
 
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I also upgraded my RAM to 8 GB. Very easy to do, check youtube videos. I mostly needed the upgrade for running virtual machines. The mac definitely didn't need 8 GB for what I use it for :)
 
Not sure that it's going to be a great help to you for your gaming purposes.

1. The increase in reserved VRAM happens under MacOS, not sure if that will translate to Windows from Bootcamp.

2. Even if it does I believe that set aside is a minimum, which means that unless you're using all the other RAM currently, it won't make any difference.

3. Even if you are using all the other RAM, additional RAM for your graphics chip doesn't help you all that much, it's the processing power that really counts and the only way to improve that is with a dGPU.

All that being said, if you only have 4GB RAM, you're likely to see a significant performance increase in your everyday computing because 4GB isn't really enough to run OSX 10.8.2 (or 10.7.4) without pageouts to your HDD unless your usage pattern is very light.



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You're using a 64-bit version of Windows in Bootcamp, right? Without a 64-bit OS you're going to get NO benefit from 8 GB vs. 4 GB of RAM. A 32-bit OS can not address more than ~3.75 GB of RAM, a 64-bit OS can address significantly more.
 
hallux said:
You're using a 64-bit version of Windows in Bootcamp, right? Without a 64-bit OS you're going to get NO benefit from 8 GB vs. 4 GB of RAM. A 32-bit OS can not address more than ~3.75 GB of RAM, a 64-bit OS can address significantly more.
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I know :) I am just wondering where and what is the best ram to get 4 x 4 wise and should I keep the old sticks incase this mac breaks :) (got three years warranty)
 
turbocrow said:
I have 4gb atm and I would like to upgrade to 8gb to get more Vram for the HD4000. (I game in windows a wee bit and some games are on the verge of playing)

Would it be worth while ? cheers and thanks.
My mac is not slow at all tbh I am clean freak in the sense windows can not stay opened if I am not using them haha. So the Ram would be for the GPU only although in saying that in the summer time I will be editing videos (gaming reviews etc used to do it until school life took over and I sold my PC)

Thanks people :)

Edit: another thing that I forgot to mention is what ram to buy im from the UK and I am clueless ! please someone link me thanks for the comments btw :)
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Just so you know, adding more VRAM will not help gaming performance of your laptop in any way, shape or form(I really mean it, it won't help, AT ALL). The Intel 4000HD is not meant for gaming, and no amount of RAM will help that, it just doesn't have the processing power, period.

In other words, upgrading for that reason is both a waste of your time and your hard earned money. If you want to game, buy something else such as a cheap desktop PC or a console.
 
hallux said:
You're using a 64-bit version of Windows in Bootcamp, right? Without a 64-bit OS you're going to get NO benefit from 8 GB vs. 4 GB of RAM. A 32-bit OS can not address more than ~3.75 GB of RAM, a 64-bit OS can address significantly more.
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Only true of Windows and non-PAE Linux. OSX uses PAE as well as most linux distro's..early Intel Mac's were limited to 3GB but that was a chipset limitation not an OS limitation
 
GermanyChris said:
Only true of Windows and non-PAE Linux. OSX uses PAE as well as most linux distro's..early Intel Mac's were limited to 3GB but that was a chipset limitation not an OS limitation
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Right - the entire system can use more but each process is limited to 2 or 3GB
 
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