just upgraded to 4gigs of RAM

D.Schwartz · Mar 19, 2008

and i gotta say those mac ppl are crafty. I had to go to 4 different stores to find the 00 philips screwdriver that they recommend to use. i tried lots at home and non fit. they really want u to get things done at apple i see.

goobimama · Mar 19, 2008

Oh I see. Cause the iMac has this one screw which I so easily unscrewed with a junky screwdriver I had at home.

Hows the performance boost btw?

D.Schwartz · Mar 19, 2008

goobimama said:
Oh I see. Cause the iMac has this one screw which I so easily unscrewed with a junky screwdriver I had at home.

Hows the performance boost btw?

so far the only difference i noticed was a faster startup, the real test will come when i love 5-7 different things.

ogacon · Mar 19, 2008

Are you saying you needed to order a special screw driver to open up the MBP to install more RAM?

Chrisblaze · Mar 19, 2008

what ram did you order?

D.Schwartz · Mar 19, 2008

Chrisblaze said:
what ram did you order?

no i didnt have to special order it, but lets just say that the 00 philips is hard to find. and i got the OWC ram

hexonxonx · Mar 19, 2008

I upgraded my MBP up to 4GB a few weeks ago and I really haven't noticed much difference than when I had the original 2. I used the Kensington ram from BestBuy.

As for the screwdriver, I used a jewelers screwdriver. The screws are insanely short.

eliehass · Mar 19, 2008

when i upgraded my ram i just went to the pharmacy and got a glasses repair kit. the screwdriver from that got the job done

kgeier82 · Mar 19, 2008

D.Schwartz said:
so far the only difference i noticed was a faster startup, the real test will come when i love 5-7 different things.

thats a whole lot of lovin at one time

youre a busy person.

i found the perfect screwdriver at sears.

oddly, two #00 didnt work at all, 3rd time was a charm

Noels · Mar 19, 2008

Sears is the place to go - I fortunately had a small Phillips that came with a screwdriver set I bought years ago to repair my eyeglasses, so I had that to change my memory... but while looking around for a T8 Torx screwdriver to change my hard drive, I found the easiest place to get it without having to buy an expensive Torx set was Sears, where it is available as a single screwdriver for $3.99...

So go to Sears first, then on-line.

Noel

D.Schwartz · Mar 19, 2008

kgeier82 said:
thats a whole lot of lovin at one time youre a busy person.

i found the perfect screwdriver at sears.

oddly, two #00 didnt work at all, 3rd time was a charm

omg total typo i meant to write "run"

mac57 · Mar 21, 2008

D.Schwartz said:
so far the only difference i noticed was a faster startup

This is consistent with what I see in the memory meter for my G5. I have 2.5 GB of RAM in my machine (it came with 0.5 GB and I added 2 GB more). I have almost never seen it come anywhere near full usage of the 2.5 GB of RAM, even when I have Photoshop, Thunderbird, Firefox and iTunes all running at the same time. Ditto for my MBP, although I don't have Photoshop there, and run X11 and GIMP instead.

As a result, I would not expect a big gain by adding more RAM. 2 GB is plenty already! ...unless you are doing heavy duty video or music editing, in which case MAYBE it might help...

soul.glo · Mar 21, 2008

D.Schwartz said:
omg total typo i meant to write "run"

this had me laughing for a while.

rohan · Mar 21, 2008

this had me laughing for a while (im still laughing a little)

MBP 15" 2.4ghz(Penryn)/2mb ram/200g hd/etc..

hehe...u might wanna "upgrade" the info

D.Schwartz · Mar 21, 2008

mac57 said:
This is consistent with what I see in the memory meter for my G5. I have 2.5 GB of RAM in my machine (it came with 0.5 GB and I added 2 GB more). I have almost never seen it come anywhere near full usage of the 2.5 GB of RAM, even when I have Photoshop, Thunderbird, Firefox and iTunes all running at the same time. Ditto for my MBP, although I don't have Photoshop there, and run X11 and GIMP instead.

As a result, I would not expect a big gain by adding more RAM. 2 GB is plenty already! ...unless you are doing heavy duty video or music editing, in which case MAYBE it might help...

yes, i upgraded cause i plan to play with logic and ableton so it will come in handy when i have 15 or more channels loaded on ableton and logic.

kipkeston · Mar 22, 2008

strange, I used some old screw driver I found in the garage to upgrade mine. Must be 20 years old.