Is there a significant difference...

between 512MB of ram and 768MB of ram? Thanks

Depends on what ur using it on, and what ur using it for...

Depends on what you are doing.

if all you do is surf the internet or check email, there wont be a huge difference, if you do lots of processor intensive stuff, like graphics, or video editing, there will be a big difference, not huge, but definitely noticeable, also depends on your processor speed.

How about for Adobe Photoshop and regular gaming?

there ill be a difference, not huge, but a somewhat noticeable difference, especially when applying filters in photoshop.

so in the end is it worth the extra money to get 512?

epends on where you buy it from, or rather how much you will pay for it.

It's a lot safer for me to go through apple in getting the extra 256MB incase I screw it up installing it myself and void my warranty

so its' 130$ Canadian so 100$ US

you have to almost be trying to purposely screw up to do so, its so easy. try this:
http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Models.cfm?stype=Memory&2545, select your model and youll see how cheap it is. its very cheap. cheaper than apple, or try crucial.

I think Ill have to consider to change it myself. It does look easy from the manual and its a lot cheaper. Thanks

Macman said:

if all you do is surf the internet or check email, there wont be a huge difference, if you do lots of processor intensive stuff, like graphics, or video editing, there will be a big difference, not huge, but definitely noticeable, also depends on your processor speed.

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A processor intensive application doesn't necessarily use more memory.

no, but if youre running more than 1 app at a time, it does, overall. and I cant see anyone running just photoshop.

More memory isn't going to help unless you use it, you can have 10 apps open at the same time but if each one only uses an average of 30Mb , then having more memory than that isn't going to help.

Well I went for 768 overall and I'm glad I did...

I have a lot less noticeable slowdowns when running multiple memory intensive apps...

What amazes me though, is that when I check out the current memory usage in Activity monitor, nearly ALL memory is being used up... only around 10MB free most of the time..

Games run a lot smoother than with the base 256MB and apps such as iMovie and iDVD seem a bit snappier too...