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From: d4g4h4 on 5 Jun 2010 13:31 My 4-year old black macbook needs a RAM upgrade. I upgraded to snow leopard, which had good and bad points- system is definitely slower. I have only 1.25GB of RAM. I'll certainly upgrade to 2GB but would I notice an appreciable difference with 4? Any thoughts appreciated. David -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: Chris Ridd on 5 Jun 2010 14:44 On 2010-06-05 18:31:06 +0100, David Horne, _the_ chancellor (* said: > My 4-year old black macbook needs a RAM upgrade. I upgraded to snow > leopard, which had good and bad points- system is definitely slower. I > have only 1.25GB of RAM. I'll certainly upgrade to 2GB but would I > notice an appreciable difference with 4? Any thoughts appreciated. It depends what you're doing. If you add up the sizes of the files in /var/vm (except for sleepimage), you'll see the maximum amount of memory that you have actually been using. (Very approximately.) If that's consistently over 2GB then you want more than 2GB of RAM. -- Chris
From: David Empson on 6 Jun 2010 02:01 David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > My 4-year old black macbook needs a RAM upgrade. I upgraded to snow > leopard, which had good and bad points- system is definitely slower. I > have only 1.25GB of RAM. I'll certainly upgrade to 2GB but would I > notice an appreciable difference with 4? Any thoughts appreciated. If it is a four year old black MacBook then you have no choice in the matter - the first generation MacBooks (May 2006 to November 2006) are limited to 2 GB of memory. The second and third generation (November 2006 to November 2007) can take 3 GB. Every model since then can take at least 4 GB. If you aren't sure which model you have, go to About This Mac under the Apple menu, then click the More Info button to run System Profiler. On the first screen one of the items it displays is "Model Identifier". For a MacBook, the early model identifiers are: MacBook1,1: limited to 2 GB MacBook2,1: limited to 3 GB (can install 4 but only use 3 and a bit) MacBook3,1: limited to 4 GB -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: d4g4h4 on 6 Jun 2010 04:40 David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote: > David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > My 4-year old black macbook needs a RAM upgrade. I upgraded to snow > > leopard, which had good and bad points- system is definitely slower. I > > have only 1.25GB of RAM. I'll certainly upgrade to 2GB but would I > > notice an appreciable difference with 4? Any thoughts appreciated. > > If it is a four year old black MacBook then you have no choice in the > matter - the first generation MacBooks (May 2006 to November 2006) are > limited to 2 GB of memory. Ha-ha, that's an easy one then! :) In the back of my mind, I thought 2 was the limit for mine, but when I saw 4GB available for black macbooks, I forgot about it... should probably be fine, as following the other poster's suggestion, it doesn't seem I get up to using 2GB much... -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: Chris Ridd on 6 Jun 2010 05:05
On 2010-06-06 09:40:50 +0100, David Horne, _the_ chancellor (* said: > David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote: > >> David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> My 4-year old black macbook needs a RAM upgrade. I upgraded to snow >>> leopard, which had good and bad points- system is definitely slower. I >>> have only 1.25GB of RAM. I'll certainly upgrade to 2GB but would I >>> notice an appreciable difference with 4? Any thoughts appreciated. >> >> If it is a four year old black MacBook then you have no choice in the >> matter - the first generation MacBooks (May 2006 to November 2006) are >> limited to 2 GB of memory. > > Ha-ha, that's an easy one then! :) In the back of my mind, I thought 2 > was the limit for mine, but when I saw 4GB available for black macbooks, > I forgot about it... should probably be fine, as following the other > poster's suggestion, it doesn't seem I get up to using 2GB much... You'll get some benefit going to 4GB, but 4 years is a good age for a MacBook. New MacBook time? -- Chris |