4GB of RAM is awesome....

Darrell · 02-15-2009, 09:41 PM

My MacBook came with 1GB of RAM. Today I spent $59.99 and got 4GB of Kingston RAM. I'm BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZIN NOW!!!

yellowgoat · 02-15-2009, 09:47 PM

That cheap. Where did you get your ram from? Is Mac ram different from pc RAM? I want a mac! They look so cool.

Cyanide · 02-15-2009, 09:48 PM

My new laptop for christmas has 4 GB in it. My old one had 500mg. It does seem that RAM does an amazing job. Its nearly 5+ times faster, even though the processor is less than twice as fast. But, then mine is PC. I thought MACs were already supposed to be perfect....so how could you get faster than perfect?

Cheers to you on your RAM

Darrell · 02-15-2009, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by yellowgoat

That cheap. Where did you get your ram from? Is Mac ram different from pc RAM? I want a mac! They look so cool.

I got it from Fry's.

I am not sure if the RAM is different on PC Laptops, I've never looked into it.

doctorcue · 02-15-2009, 09:59 PM

VirtualSmitty · 02-15-2009, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by yellowgoat

That cheap. Where did you get your ram from? Is Mac ram different from pc RAM? I want a mac! They look so cool.

Ram is dirt cheap, I updated my imac with this (except I paid 44 bucks when it was on sale

)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227251

Mac ram isn't special. The imacs use the same stuff the laptops use, otherwise nothing special.

Silound · 02-15-2009, 10:14 PM

Not a mac expert by all means, however I think Mac's use the same RAM as PCs, now that they use the x86 architecture. Don't quote me on that, I could be very wrong.

yellowgoat · 02-15-2009, 10:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

Ram is dirt cheap, I updated my imac with this (except I paid 44 bucks when it was on sale

)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227251

Mac ram isn't special. The imacs use the same stuff the laptops use, otherwise nothing special.

Thanks man! I guess I'll be updating my ram soon too!

RGD. · 02-15-2009, 10:18 PM

Ron

BORIStheBLADE · 02-15-2009, 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darrell

My MacBook came with 1GB of RAM. Today I spent $59.99 and got 4GB of Kingston RAM. I'm BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZIN NOW!!!

Did you look on the side of your old ram? See if it has a Mhz rating. Your new one is 667mhz, if the old one is less that is another reason why your new stuff is faster.

Darrell · 02-15-2009, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by BORIStheBLADE

Did you look on the side of your old ram? See if it has a Mhz rating. Your new one is 667mhz, if the old one is less that is another reason why your new stuff is faster.

The old RAM does not have the MHZ on it. Which is weird.

Seanohue · 02-15-2009, 10:25 PM

It sure is

Darrell · 02-15-2009, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Seanohue

It sure is

Quote:

Originally Posted by RGD.

Those are PC's though, they need 7 GB just to boot.

Ace$nyper · 02-15-2009, 10:29 PM

Happy to hear you are enjoying it

I need to unlazy now and throw in my extra ram.

Seanohue · 02-15-2009, 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darrell

Those are PC's though, they need 7 GB just to boot.

Nah, just 1GB. Mine runs rock solid though, even OCed to 3.5GHz. I dare say I like Vista (64)

This is memory I'm running http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231145

RX2010 · 02-15-2009, 10:46 PM

I've got 2, all I need for now

the next machine... I think I'll put something ridiculous like 16 in it, just so I can tell Darrell to blow it out his ass

Darrell · 02-15-2009, 10:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RX2010

I've got 2, all I need for now

the next machine... I think I'll put something ridiculous like 16 in it, just so I can tell Darrell to blow it out his ass

That hurts Tim, I thought we were tight.

RX2010 · 02-15-2009, 10:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darrell

That hurts Tim, I thought we were tight.

sorry bro, I was just trying to "out stunt you"

MithShrike · 02-15-2009, 10:52 PM

Macs are designed to take advantage of RAM very well. AnandTech did a report on OS X caching a few years back. Granted that was while they were still using the IBM PowerPC architecture but I doubt that much has changed for memory management with the move to x86.

Darrell · 02-15-2009, 10:55 PM

I wish it would make PS load faster. It does a little faster, LOL.

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