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<blockquote data-quote="CShannon" data-source="post: 247752" data-attributes="member: 19035"><p><strong>Transcend Brand</strong></p><p></p><p>My MBP came with 1 GB and I installed a $70 Transcend 1 GB memory module from NewEgg.com. </p><p></p><p>The price of the Crucial brand is about twice the price with no gain in performance or realiability.</p><p></p><p>I have built over 50 PC compatible machines and have used various brands of memory. Very few brands are actually "bad." If you do some research you'll find there are only a few manufacturers of the chips themselves and the rest of the companies simply package them. Many companies are just marketing entities that rebrand the memory and sell it under their own name with the usual marketing hype about how good their brand is.</p><p></p><p>The one exception is high performance ram that you intend to overclock. In this case you do have to be selective and be prepared to pay extra for its ability to handle the extra speed. Low latency ram will also cost a premium.</p><p></p><p>But the Mac Books just use a vanila memory module that is available from a more than a dozen companies, any one of which can provide the right module.</p><p></p><p>Transcend is a good as any, and you will find several comments at NewEgg.com about people who use this memory in Mac Books.</p><p></p><p></p><p>You can get a faulty module from any memory maker including Crucial. Just be sure to install and use it when it arrives and exchange it if your Mac begins to lock up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CShannon, post: 247752, member: 19035"] [b]Transcend Brand[/b] My MBP came with 1 GB and I installed a $70 Transcend 1 GB memory module from NewEgg.com. The price of the Crucial brand is about twice the price with no gain in performance or realiability. I have built over 50 PC compatible machines and have used various brands of memory. Very few brands are actually "bad." If you do some research you'll find there are only a few manufacturers of the chips themselves and the rest of the companies simply package them. Many companies are just marketing entities that rebrand the memory and sell it under their own name with the usual marketing hype about how good their brand is. The one exception is high performance ram that you intend to overclock. In this case you do have to be selective and be prepared to pay extra for its ability to handle the extra speed. Low latency ram will also cost a premium. But the Mac Books just use a vanila memory module that is available from a more than a dozen companies, any one of which can provide the right module. Transcend is a good as any, and you will find several comments at NewEgg.com about people who use this memory in Mac Books. You can get a faulty module from any memory maker including Crucial. Just be sure to install and use it when it arrives and exchange it if your Mac begins to lock up. [/QUOTE]
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