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<blockquote data-quote="beastykato" data-source="post: 599562" data-attributes="member: 47903"><p>I just bought a Macbook and I got 4gb of ram to slap into it the day it arrived at my door. I did start it up with the 1gb that came with it and noticed a definite speed increase after putting the 4gb in. </p><p></p><p>Having said that 2gb of ram will be plenty if you are just doing routine things. I occasionally play some games or type up a paper in pages and have a cd burning in itunes and a movie playing in my divx player, along with all of my other programs open at the same time (Adium, Mail, Firefox, Limewire, Acquistion, Stickies, and more). This still hasn't maxed out my 4gb of ram but I have taken up over 3gb in the activity monitor at certain points. It's not so much that I need this much ram but it makes it very convenient, because I can literally open up every program I use and I can leave them all open and ready to go without a hiccup. And the ram for macbooks is so cheap right now I don't see any reason not to just max it out anyway.</p><p></p><p>And yeah about the keyboard at night... You shouldn't have any problem at all the screen provides more than enough light to see the keys and to be honest I don't look at my keys very much anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beastykato, post: 599562, member: 47903"] I just bought a Macbook and I got 4gb of ram to slap into it the day it arrived at my door. I did start it up with the 1gb that came with it and noticed a definite speed increase after putting the 4gb in. Having said that 2gb of ram will be plenty if you are just doing routine things. I occasionally play some games or type up a paper in pages and have a cd burning in itunes and a movie playing in my divx player, along with all of my other programs open at the same time (Adium, Mail, Firefox, Limewire, Acquistion, Stickies, and more). This still hasn't maxed out my 4gb of ram but I have taken up over 3gb in the activity monitor at certain points. It's not so much that I need this much ram but it makes it very convenient, because I can literally open up every program I use and I can leave them all open and ready to go without a hiccup. And the ram for macbooks is so cheap right now I don't see any reason not to just max it out anyway. And yeah about the keyboard at night... You shouldn't have any problem at all the screen provides more than enough light to see the keys and to be honest I don't look at my keys very much anyway. [/QUOTE]
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