What to do with old 4GB of ram(2x2GB) from MBP?

[detz]

I'm upgrading to 8GB and now I'm going to have the 4GB ram that is useless. Anyone I know that has a 15 or 17 already has 4GB since it's standard so will this ram work on older macbooks?

 

[Gabriel GR]

I'm upgrading to 8GB and now I'm going to have the 4GB ram that is useless. Anyone I know that has a 15 or 17 already has 4GB since it's standard so will this ram work on older macbooks?

You can sell it to anybody with a alu macbook 13", mbp 13" or 2009 macbook. Also any laptop that uses DDR3 memory.

 

[kny3twalker]

I'm upgrading to 8GB and now I'm going to have the 4GB ram that is useless. Anyone I know that has a 15 or 17 already has 4GB since it's standard so will this ram work on older macbooks?

I sent you a message.

 

[-aggie-]

You mainly have to see if the Mac can accept DDR3 memory. The older ones won't.

 

[Surely]

Make earrings out of them.

 

[Jason Beck]

I have a Mac Mini, and i just ordered some ram last week. Should be here tomorrow or something. If I woulda seen your post I would have hit you up! I'd sell that if I were you =) I would have given you like 50-75$

 

[applebook]

There is definitely a large market for 2Gb DDR3 modules. Unfortunately for many fools on Craigslist, there is NO market for 1Gb DDR3 modules. Try telling these ignoramuses not to advertise them for $20 a pop.

 

[iMav]

I typically sell my excess ram on craigslist. 2GB sodimms always see
to go quickly (DDR2 and DDR3).

 

[DoNoHarm]

do you really notice the 8gb of ram? i'm not going to upgrade yet, i'll wait until the prices drop even further. I haven't really been using the 4gb in my system anyways.

 

[detz]

do you really notice the 8gb of ram? i'm not going to upgrade yet, i'll wait until the prices drop even further. I haven't really been using the 4gb in my system anyways.

I don't have it yet, it should be here monday but I use VM's all day at work and I have three browsers open with tons of tabs not to mention itunes, photoshop, xcode, a dozen or so terminals, mail, cal, textmate, etc... I've noticed that the VM's can take up 2-3GB so getting this will leave plenty for my normal apps which should make things snappier.

If I consider I can sell my existing ram for at least 60 that brings the price down to $329.99 which seems like a pretty good deal to me.

 

[angemon89]

there is NO market for 1Gb DDR3 modules.

Now that there are iMacs with 4 RAM slots I'm surprised that these iMac owners aren't buying up the 1gb RAM sticks for cheap. I commonly see people selling their 2x1GB sticks for $20 for both.

If you have a 21 or 27" iMac you can go from 4GB -> 6GB for just $20. Not bad.