Wednesday 27 April 2011

Upgraded the Macbook

4Gb RAM over the stand 2 makes a noticeable difference, and not where you'd expect it. Start up is shorter and programs open more quickly, but the most noticeable difference is that animations are smoother. This is especially obvious with the dock, which would always judder it's way up from the bottom of the screen on first opening, but now only jerks a little.

A number of people have said (online) that OSX only uses the memory it needs, and adding more is quite un-necessary unless you know you're using it all up. This is clearly bosh - the Macbook is just another PC in a pretty skin, and responds as such. Last time I looked (back in October) the 4Gb upgrade was still quite expensive. This time round it was just £35 for 4Gb (2 'matched' 2Gb sticks) of apple-specific DDR3 RAM, and well worth it.

If you have a 2 1/2 YO Macbook with only 2Gb then it's absolutely worth the upgrade. Just be careful with those (microscopic) screws that hold the back panel on - I don't think they'll take much to noodle (and there's 2 different sizes too).

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