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post #41 of 55
12/29/06 at 10:28pm
You just need PC5300 SODIMMs, Siul
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post #42 of 55
1/16/07 at 7:29pm
Hi,
we can now put 3gb of Ram in MacBook Pro on apple.com. can we put 4Gb ? (2x2Gb) ?
Thank you.
Jp
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post #43 of 55
1/16/07 at 8:19pm
2x2GB will work but because of limitations to the current chipsets used on the motherboards—this is not limited to Apple, btw—only 3 gigs will be accessible to the system even though it will show you 4 are installed.
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post #44 of 55
2/7/07 at 11:51pm
4200
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post #45 of 55
2/8/07 at 12:59am
What is the answer to the question of Life the Universe and Everything when accounting for inflation?
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post #46 of 55
2/9/07 at 1:02am
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Originally Posted by -Empty-
not so sure about mac, but winxp's sweet spot for ram is 2 gigs; anything over that is pretty much never used. I have virtual mem set as low as i can (0mb in config, but truly disabling the page file just isn't a good idea) and i never run into low memory errors; even while playing bf2 at full settings (which is a particularly memory hungry game). vista, is going to want around 3.5 - 4 gigs; but again, i have no idea with mac specifically. My experience with Gentoo Linux also makes me feel that 2 gigs currently is the sweet spot for most uses. To answer your question, multi tasking eats ram as much as cpu if the programs you're running multiple instances of are doing something. (Ex. 12 web pages loading at the same time are all going to eat your ram, and top out your processor; where as 11 web pages idle and 1 loading is going to consume far less processing power, but only slightly less ram.) .... assuming things work similarly between win/Linux - and os x.
Is it better in XP to have more or less HD space set aside for VM?
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post #47 of 55
2/16/07 at 2:46pm
If you have enough ram (2 gigs and above), set VM to 0
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post #48 of 55
6/29/07 at 11:26am
I thought one of the big deals with Santa Rosa was the 800Mhz FSB, which I thought was the desired/max RAM speed. The MB/Ps look like they come with slower, 667Mhz RAM. Would it be valid to go buy 800Mhz RAM to install into your MB/P to get a decent boost?
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post #49 of 55
6/29/07 at 11:41am
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Originally Posted by StrikeEagle View Post
I thought one of the big deals with Santa Rosa was the 800Mhz FSB, which I thought was the desired/max RAM speed. The MB/Ps look like they come with slower, 667Mhz RAM. Would it be valid to go buy 800Mhz RAM to install into your MB/P to get a decent boost?
The situation is very strange... the chipset doesn't actually accept 800MHz RAM. The FSB is, but if you have ever OCed a desktop then you know that the RAM speed and FSB do not have to be intrinsically linked. You can run what is known as a divider so that you can use cheaper low speed RAM to get a higher speed FSB.

That is what is happening here, the chipset only supports up to DDR2-667, so it runs it on a divider to achieve the 800MHz FSB. So what will happen is that if you put DDR2-800 into the MBP it will be downclocked to 667MHz, ergo you will see zero performance benefit.
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post #50 of 55
1/12/08 at 10:37am
why do people want 4gb ram when all of it is nt going to use

i have 1 gb and should i get 2 gb deos it make any differnce
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post #51 of 55
8/8/10 at 1:34pm

Mac book pro 2.33 2gb ram

hey just wondering how much ram i can put in this mac book?
and where can i buy it the cheaper the better
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post #52 of 55
8/8/10 at 1:47pm
What year is your macbook?

cheers ...
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post #53 of 55
8/8/10 at 1:54pm
it's 2009 steel under warranty till 2012
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post #54 of 55
8/8/10 at 2:27pm
You probably can get 4GB in there. As far as cheap concerns I go to eBay but stay away from the no-name brand.

cheers ...
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post #55 of 55
8/8/10 at 2:40pm
ok thanks for advice
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