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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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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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
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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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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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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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Thanks man! I guess I'll be updating my ram soon too! :-)
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Ron
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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.
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The old RAM does not have the MHZ on it. Which is weird.
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It sure is :-)

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Those are PC's though, they need 7 GB just to boot. :-)
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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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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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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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That hurts Tim, I thought we were tight. :-)
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sorry bro, I was just trying to "out stunt you"
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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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I wish it would make PS load faster. It does a little faster, LOL. :-)
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