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I have searched the forum and I know where to purchase memory. I gather the consiensis is either OWC or Crucial. However I still have some question and would like some input.
1) With 8gb upgrade being only $100 why doesnt everyone do this. I understand most people, probably including myself will never use it, but dollar for dollar wouldnt this be the best money every spent.
2) I own a 15inch MBP the newest model, with a 2.3GHz i7 and 4gb of ram. I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be asking this question, however here I am. I dont consider myself a heavy user, but here within lies my problem. I am a college student who has the misfortune of having to take a college computer class. So.... back to windows it is. So I will be running Parallels 6 with Windows 7 ultimate 64bit. I have allocated 2gb to the virtual machine. Now, while doing this on I continue to run Safari in one window with 4 - 6 tabs. iChat, and iTunes. Typically I have not issues but while running Windows, I sometimes get the Rainbow circle for minutes... not seconds at a time. So, is there anything I can do to increase performance? or am I doing something wrong? I will attach a photo of the activity monitor during normal operation.
Thank you for any help.
1) With 8gb upgrade being only $100 why doesnt everyone do this. I understand most people, probably including myself will never use it, but dollar for dollar wouldnt this be the best money every spent.
2) I own a 15inch MBP the newest model, with a 2.3GHz i7 and 4gb of ram. I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be asking this question, however here I am. I dont consider myself a heavy user, but here within lies my problem. I am a college student who has the misfortune of having to take a college computer class. So.... back to windows it is. So I will be running Parallels 6 with Windows 7 ultimate 64bit. I have allocated 2gb to the virtual machine. Now, while doing this on I continue to run Safari in one window with 4 - 6 tabs. iChat, and iTunes. Typically I have not issues but while running Windows, I sometimes get the Rainbow circle for minutes... not seconds at a time. So, is there anything I can do to increase performance? or am I doing something wrong? I will attach a photo of the activity monitor during normal operation.
Thank you for any help.