Hey everyone,
I'm thinking of getting 4GB for my Macbook. What's your opinion on this? Thing is though, I normally only go past 2GB after running Parallels and I don't really think I could ever go past 3GB to be honest. Still, when I'm running Parallels, I want the freedom to be able to open as many programs as I want without the need to swap out memory. This leaves me with 1GB that would be essentially wasted.
Apart from using it as a ramdisk (can anyone work out any innovative and interesting things I can do with this?) and possibly trying to cache everything to main memory e.g. disable disk cache of Firefox and increase memory cache size, I can't really think how else I could better utilize the extra memory.
I also wonder if 4GB would take up more battery life than a 2GB set up or would that be the same? I rarely run Parallels without the charger plugged in, which also means that I will be <2GB RAM usage at that time. The other issue is, would the increase RAM size increase the amount of heat generated?
I'm thinking of getting 4GB for my Macbook. What's your opinion on this? Thing is though, I normally only go past 2GB after running Parallels and I don't really think I could ever go past 3GB to be honest. Still, when I'm running Parallels, I want the freedom to be able to open as many programs as I want without the need to swap out memory. This leaves me with 1GB that would be essentially wasted.
Apart from using it as a ramdisk (can anyone work out any innovative and interesting things I can do with this?) and possibly trying to cache everything to main memory e.g. disable disk cache of Firefox and increase memory cache size, I can't really think how else I could better utilize the extra memory.
I also wonder if 4GB would take up more battery life than a 2GB set up or would that be the same? I rarely run Parallels without the charger plugged in, which also means that I will be <2GB RAM usage at that time. The other issue is, would the increase RAM size increase the amount of heat generated?