Re: [PLUG] OT: Mac OS X question

[Guillermo Moyna <g.moyna@usip.edu>]

> At 2007-10-09 23:12 -0400, zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/9/07, Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Also, how hard is it to upgrade Memory on a
> > > MacBook? Planning to get 1GB of RAM, but would like to upgrade to  
> > > 2GB or
> > > even 4GB if possible.
> > > Any thoughts?
> > *DEFINITELY* max out your RAM to 4GB; OSX is a RAM hog and probably
> > should be running on 8GB if the laptop hardware supported it.
>
> First, I encourage you to find an Apple-made laptop that supports
> more than 2 GB of SO-DIMM RAM. (They don't exist. See
> http://support.apple.com/specs/.)
>
> Second, while 1 GB is sluggish on a 2 GHz Intel Core Duo MacBook
> Pro, 2 GB is quite sufficient to run Firefox with 20+ tabs, VMware
> Fusion with a 250 GB allocation, Virtue with 8 desktops, the Gimp
> (under X), Terminal with 30 windows open, Fire, NewsFire, VLC (not
> actively playing, but it'd be smooth sailing if it were) Mail,
> Addressbook, iCal, iPhoto, iTunes, with two SMB-mounted shares (from
> one of which iTunes is playing), an iPod, and an iPhone connected,
> under Mac OS X 10.4.10. Just going on what I'm doing right this
> very second.

I agree with Gabe. Among the many Macs I have running Mac OS X  
10.4.10 (the last update before leopard) there is a iMac G3 700 MHz,  
circa 2001, with 384 MB of RAM. I can have it running Firefox,  
Acrobat Pro, Word, Apple's Mail app, Skype (a known memory and  
resource hog), and play iTunes through the network with no problem.  
Try to run winders vista on a Pentium III with 384 MB: I doubt it'll  
go past the bios chime...

> As regards performing a memory install on a MacBook, it took me two
> clicks from http://support.apple.com/ to find:
>
>   http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303721

Yep, that's all it takes. Actually, I've done it a couple of time on  
MacBooks and it's probably one of the easiest memory instals I've  
come across so far...

G.

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