Anyone with 2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo/1GB Ram

[XMARLTONX]

I ordered this system last thursday, and I was just wondering what to expect in terms of speed with using dashboard, iLife, and overall performance. Anyone wanna tell a story about their Mac?

=)

 

[TheCustomer99]

Well, I have 2 GB of RAM, but other than that our specs are identical. I think our MacBooks would run around the same speed. I don't think you'll have any troubles doing what you want to do, I haven't on mine. 1 GB should be plenty.

 

[giulio]

If you dont run photoshop and a virtual machine at the same time, you should be fine with 1GB ram.

 

[InFlame]

Well i have 2 GB of RAM and 160 GB for harddrive and i found that pretty good for running parallels and other stuff at the same time , 1 GB is efficient for middle and light use of the macbook!

 

[Wobbly_Cheese]

I have your exact machine.

From everyday use it is great. When I start to do design work, (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Director, Illustrator) etc usually all at once, it bogs down.

However, I think another GB of ram will solve this. 1 GB isn't that much.

 

[tears2040]

Go to newegg order 2gb ram from G.Skill and install in your macbook.


My labtop is a beast with the added ram, before with only 1 ram it ran good start up took about 40 total seconds about like 30+ programs would bog it down .


With 2gbs ah man it CRAZY system starts in about 15-25 seconds fast fast, programs well lets just say I got tired of running programs that would bog my system.

Internet, audio, video, all kind of ish system runs beautiful. I truly beleive this is the efficiency of apples OS and not neccesarily the hardware but a combunation of both.


My next upgrade will be removing the 80gb hardrive & installing a 160gb 5400rpm. Really wanted to go with a 7200, but currently manufacturers only make a 100gb.


Yeah man my macbook, minus the problems I have with my superdrive ( which will get fit) is amazing!!


4 out of 5, reason for not a perfect score is due to the lack of a graphics card and limited usb/fire/other connections. But I fond ways around all that

, peace

 

[FlatlanderIA]

great machine but....

I have the same machine but i also upgraded to 2GB ram from GSkill. Overall, I absolutely love it. Runs all my applications beautifully and OSX is a dream.. I also use parallels to run ArcGIS and Visual Basic flawlessly! HOwever, I have been having 0-2 Kernel Panics a day after installing the Ram. Could be a bad batch. I've returned it and am going to try out Crucial. Hopefully that will fix the problem. Have fun with it!
Cheers-

 

[mikeyman]

I have a macbook 1GB ram, 2GHZ processor and 200GB HDD and it totoally pw3ned anything else i have used.
Its great even using photoshop, however i did notice slow rendering on smudge tool when doing large amounts at same time.

Great machine, might upgrade to 2GB next year if i require it.

Let us know how your mac performs

 

[hagios1972]

great machine ...

 

[powermacj7]

I just made the jump from 1.5G4 PB to a new iMac 2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo/1GB Ram, I had the computer a week still amazed at the speed difference. Obviously I knew the iMac would be faster but this is even beyond my expectations.

 

[MWolverine]

I have your exact model, and I thought the speed has been good. The only problem I have is when I am running multiple Mac Office programs at the same time, but that is to be expected because they are not native. I am thinking about upgrading the RAM though, just to improve the computer, not because it's needed.

 

[XMARLTONX]

My mac is in a FedEx station an hour away, so I am assuming it will be here tomorrow. I'll be sure to keep you all posted, thanks for all the helpful answers!

 

[TheCustomer99]

It definitely will be there tomorrow. With UPS you may have to question it, but with FedEx it's a sure thing.

 

[iRye]

getting that machine when i sell my PB.

 

[celtictricky]

I have the same machine but i also upgraded to 2GB ram from GSkill. Overall, I absolutely love it. Runs all my applications beautifully and OSX is a dream.. I also use parallels to run ArcGIS and Visual Basic flawlessly! HOwever, I have been having 0-2 Kernel Panics a day after installing the Ram. Could be a bad batch. I've returned it and am going to try out Crucial. Hopefully that will fix the problem. Have fun with it!
Cheers-

ArcGIS - it would run even better if you were using Cadcorp for GIS!!!!! ;-)

 

[DistantHoller]

It´s a great computer! I have had it for almost a week... I´m in love! I really think the macbook looks so much sexier than the pro.. (ducks for cover)