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Old 02-15-2009, 10:41 PM   #1
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My MacBook came with 1GB of RAM. Today I spent $59.99 and got 4GB of Kingston RAM. I'm BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZIN NOW!!!

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Old 02-15-2009, 10:47 PM   #2
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That cheap. Where did you get your ram from? Is Mac ram different from pc RAM? I want a mac! They look so cool.
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Old 02-15-2009, 10:48 PM   #3
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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?

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Old 02-15-2009, 10:48 PM   #4
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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.
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Old 02-15-2009, 10:59 PM   #5
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:11 PM   #6
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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.
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:14 PM   #7
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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.
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:15 PM   #8
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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!
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:18 PM   #9
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:18 PM   #10
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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.
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:22 PM   #11
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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.
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:25 PM   #12
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:27 PM   #13
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Those are PC's though, they need 7 GB just to boot.
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:29 PM   #14
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Happy to hear you are enjoying it

I need to unlazy now and throw in my extra ram.
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:32 PM   #15
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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
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:46 PM   #16
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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
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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.
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That hurts Tim, I thought we were tight.
sorry bro, I was just trying to "out stunt you"
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:52 PM   #19
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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.
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:55 PM   #20
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I wish it would make PS load faster. It does a little faster, LOL.
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