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- Your Mac's Specs
- Macbook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16 Ghz , 1GB RAM, 120 GB HD
I purchase an extra 2 GB of ram for my macbook pro intel core 2 duo laptop for a total of 3 GB. I bought the ram at a pc store outside of apple but is built with the exact specifications of memory bought from apple.
I successfully installed the memory myself and when I booted up the mac and looked under 'about this mac' it showed 3 GB of ram so hip hip hurray i did everything ok.
However, there was no performance difference at all. Opening up music files, to video and even PDF files loaded up no faster than when I had just 1 GB of ram.
I did a mem test and an additional memory test with tech tool pro and everything seemed to be working fine.
Anyone know why I cannot see any performance difference? Actually to be exact, it feels as though the speed has improved about 512 MB but no where near 3GB.
I then took my 1GB ram stick out and just inserted the 2GB ram stick (which is the newly purchased one) and no performance difference occurred.
Even when I talked to customer support of where I bought the ram the guy said that this is quite odd and that the mac should perform much faster.
Any suggestions or solutions?
Thank you.
Dorian
I successfully installed the memory myself and when I booted up the mac and looked under 'about this mac' it showed 3 GB of ram so hip hip hurray i did everything ok.
However, there was no performance difference at all. Opening up music files, to video and even PDF files loaded up no faster than when I had just 1 GB of ram.
I did a mem test and an additional memory test with tech tool pro and everything seemed to be working fine.
Anyone know why I cannot see any performance difference? Actually to be exact, it feels as though the speed has improved about 512 MB but no where near 3GB.
I then took my 1GB ram stick out and just inserted the 2GB ram stick (which is the newly purchased one) and no performance difference occurred.
Even when I talked to customer support of where I bought the ram the guy said that this is quite odd and that the mac should perform much faster.
Any suggestions or solutions?
Thank you.
Dorian