I just installed new RAM into my MacBook, and wanted to ensure they're rock-solid. I heard recommendations for Rember (a GUI wrapper for memtest). And I went and downloaded it and ran it.
And it completely blows. Beta software thorough and thorough. Yes it is beta, but it's so beta I don't understand why people recommend it.
First, when I tell it to quit applications and the Finder, it only does so half the time. And when I run the test, sometimes it succeeds, sometimes it just gets stuck on one stage. It even beachballed on me sometimes, and I had to force-quit it.
I figured memtest (the plain ol' CLI tool) would do. I found memtest for OS X, but the ******* wanted $1.39 for it, whereas the Windows and Linux versions are free. What the?
Oh well. Just wanted to let people know. Rember bites.
And it completely blows. Beta software thorough and thorough. Yes it is beta, but it's so beta I don't understand why people recommend it.
First, when I tell it to quit applications and the Finder, it only does so half the time. And when I run the test, sometimes it succeeds, sometimes it just gets stuck on one stage. It even beachballed on me sometimes, and I had to force-quit it.
I figured memtest (the plain ol' CLI tool) would do. I found memtest for OS X, but the ******* wanted $1.39 for it, whereas the Windows and Linux versions are free. What the?
Oh well. Just wanted to let people know. Rember bites.
