I have a White MacBook which I bought last April so it's currently got 2GB (2.4GHz C2D). I was thinking about whether to upgrade it to 4GB (2x2GB sticks obviously). Is it worth it? Will there be any noticeable improvement? Or better yet, anyone here who's made the upgrade themselves and noticed a difference?
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Worth upgrading to 4GB?
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You need to tell us what you use your machine for. The default answer is "yes, it will help performance" but the difference may or may not be significant enough to actually warrant the money.
Heh, sorry. I use my MacBook for everything basically; programming (XCode, Netbeans, Eclipse and usually the Terminal is open for Perl stuff), music, the internets (I usually have lots of tabs open for all my fave forums, shopping, news and crap like that), DVDs, sometimes a little Photoshop too. Not all at the same time obviously, but most days I have several programs open at the same time while I do various things. My MacBook hasn't struggled memory-wise in the year or so I've had it; it seems to handle multitasking much better than any of the previous Windows boxes I've had during the course of my life no matter how much memory I threw at them. I just thought that with Snow Leopard coming out soon it might be wise to upgrade and perhaps get a little performance boost too.
Yes!
I went from 1GB to 4GB and it's amazing!
Porn plays beautifu- I mean, Hulu movies and YouTube videos play seemlessly and my work flow is extremely smooth.
I'll never go back to 1GB, 2GB even in today's world.
I went from 1GB to 4GB and it's amazing!
Porn plays beautifu- I mean, Hulu movies and YouTube videos play seemlessly and my work flow is extremely smooth.
I'll never go back to 1GB, 2GB even in today's world.
i have had the same macbook as yours, WhiteBook 2.4 ghz before i got the UMBP 
i used it for basically djing, some music prodiction and surfing the internet, i upgraded to 4gb and could not be happier
so i say DO IT ..LOL
i used it for basically djing, some music prodiction and surfing the internet, i upgraded to 4gb and could not be happier
so i say DO IT ..LOL
heres a video i made with only 2 gigs of ram
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWgTqxjsF6s
i had still had 400mb left after opening pretty much every app i had trust me you dont need it unless your running vista in a VM while your using photoshop and watching an HD trailer than you might need save your money and spend it on a SSD ram wont make a difference in speed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWgTqxjsF6s
i had still had 400mb left after opening pretty much every app i had trust me you dont need it unless your running vista in a VM while your using photoshop and watching an HD trailer than you might need
save your money and spend it on a SSD ram wont make a difference in speedI needed more than 2 gigs of ram because I was continuously ripping dvd's while at the same time converting videos to different formats and browsing the web while listening to music. 4 gigs made a huge difference. But, if you aren't experiencing beach balls and slow down like I was, I honestly don't see a point.
I have a unibody macbook (late 2008) and I chose to upgrade from 2GB to 4GB and I definitely noticed a difference in things that took a bunch of memory. I run vmware fusion to test different operating systems like windows 7 and also to run my bootcamp partition when I don't want to reboot. When I had 2GB, my bootcamp partition running vista ran very slow with vmware and it also made osx run very slow as well. After I installed the 4gb and allocated more RAM to the vista system, I noticed a very large increase in speed while running vista in vmware. I also now don't have to worry about regular programs being memory hogs because I'm never low on free memory. It was definitely worth the money to upgrade and it really isn't that expensive for 2x2GB RAM sticks. I bought mine from OWC at macsales.com and it has been great.