The day and night difference with 4GB RAM

[silverblack]

I have a 2.0 GHz base model aluminum macbook. With the stock 2 GB RAM, OS X definitely feels sluggish whenever I run VMWare Fusion + Win XP. Today, I finally upgraded to 4 GB RAM. What a difference!

Now I cannot noticed any lag what so ever: I'm converting a movie with Handbrake (OS X), loading photoshop in Windows and loading Word in Mac all at the same time. I can now run 5 or 6 (or more) apps at the same time, and they all feel fast as if I am just running a single app. It's just amazing!

If you haven't done it, you should really consider upgrading the RAM.

 

[California]

I wonder how much faster they will run with 6 gbs. I noticed a difference with four gigs on my 2.4ghz al mb, but I see there is a price drop on the four gig chips now.

Wonder if Snow Leopard will let us see 8 gigs on the new Macbooks?

 

[BlackLight]

Is It possible to use 6Gb of ram???? i thought it was a maximum of 4GB ???

 

[animaxcg]

happy to here your running fast

you can put 8gb of ram in right now, but its reported to be buggy
ps 8gb costs a lot of $

 

[Bwilky]

It makes such a big difference eh? I got them to upgrade to 4gb in store. Saved me $150.00. But yeah, amazing difference. I don't know if 4gb's will be necessary when snow leopard is released though.

 

[staccato83]

I have a 2.0 GHz base model aluminum macbook. With the stock 2 GB RAM, OS X definitely feels sluggish whenever I run VMWare Fusion + Win XP. Today, I finally upgraded to 4 GB RAM. What a difference!

Now I cannot noticed any lag what so ever: I'm converting a movie with Handbrake (OS X), loading photoshop in Windows and loading Word in Mac all at the same time. I can now run 5 or 6 (or more) apps at the same time, and they all feel fast as if I am just running a single app. It's just amazing!

If you haven't done it, you should really consider upgrading the RAM.

Which RAM did you end up getting?

 

[iMacmatician]

Is It possible to use 6Gb of ram???? i thought it was a maximum of 4GB ???

6 GB is possible, it's just not officially supported by Apple. This is common with Apple products, especially when newer, larger capacity RAM sticks become available.