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Would I benefit by upgrading my 8gb RAM?

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Bronze84

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Hi guys. Got my MBP non retina last month with 8gb ram and the i5 dual core. After a couple of convert hiccups my MBP is everything I thought it would be and more.

I find that I'm using iMovie more and more (its kinda addictive!) for projects of varying size, generally between 10 & 40 mins long and a mixture of video and photos. When doing a small project it copes fine but when doing a longer one it does tend to struggle - most probably because it being dual core. However as I'm somewhat limited to upgrading to quad core, I'm wondering whether upgrading my RAM from 8gb to 16gb would be beneficial? I've noticed on analyser that I'm using nearly all my ram sometimes only having 500mb not in use?

Thanks
 
Yup audio and video editing and processing will benefit so much from ram upgrade.
 
Bronze84 said:
Hi guys. Got my MBP non retina last month with 8gb ram and the i5 dual core. After a couple of convert hiccups my MBP is everything I thought it would be and more.

I find that I'm using iMovie more and more (its kinda addictive!) for projects of varying size, generally between 10 & 40 mins long and a mixture of video and photos. When doing a small project it copes fine but when doing a longer one it does tend to struggle - most probably because it being dual core. However as I'm somewhat limited to upgrading to quad core, I'm wondering whether upgrading my RAM from 8gb to 16gb would be beneficial? I've noticed on analyser that I'm using nearly all my ram sometimes only having 500mb not in use?

Thanks
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As previously posted, it would help tremendously. And the CPU and GPU are soldered to the mother board. Unless you or a relative of yours if a professional solderer, youre stuck with the CPU and GPU your mbp came with
 
blaake said:
As previously posted, it would help tremendously. And the CPU and GPU are soldered to the mother board. Unless you or a relative of yours if a professional solderer, youre stuck with the CPU and GPU your mbp came with
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Actually the CPU and the GPU are on the same die now. Intel HD 4000. There is no dedicated GPU on i5 13" MBP.
 
Check Activity monitor during work/rendering with iMovie. If you can see lot of (hundreds of Mbs or Gbs) page-outs you will benefit from upgrading RAM. If not SSD will be probably better choice.

Of coarse you can't go wrong with getting both 16Gb RAM and an SSD :)
 
Thanks for the advice guys. I did forget to mention but yes I have the 13".

As for limited processor options I should've put 0 options lol. I will have a look at the ins and outs

I like the idea of ssd. However I would need a minimum of 750gb which would cost silly amounts no?
 
derbothaus said:
I know but i5 is only 13" in 2012. All 15" have been i7 since 2011.
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Processor model was not stated either

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Bronze84 said:
Thanks for the advice guys. I did forget to mention but yes I have the 13".

As for limited processor options I should've put 0 options lol. I will have a look at the ins and outs

I like the idea of ssd. However I would need a minimum of 750gb which would cost silly amounts no?
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For a nice reliable 500gb is around 440-460. so you can think probably around 600ish You can find cheap ones but i doubt you want to put something cheap in a $1000+ machine.
 
blaake said:
Processor model was not stated either
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"Hi guys. Got my MBP non retina last month with 8gb ram and the i5 dual core. After a couple of convert hiccups my MBP is everything I thought it would be and more. "
 
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