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    Corsair Announces World's First High-Performance Mac Memory Upgrade Modules

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by bigspin, Mar 14, 2008.

  1. bigspin

    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    I have used 2GB DDR2 667 x 2 Kingston So-DIMM modules (I remove them from my old Aspire 5920.I will fix it to my new macbook pro when it arrive next week)

    Kingston DDR2 667 SO-DIMM memory will work on my Macbook PRO ? ......Or do i need special ram like Corsair made? :rolleyes:
     
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  2. niemassacre

    niemassacre Notebook Evangelist

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    Any PC-5300 notebook RAM will work in the MB and MBP - though I don't know if you'll see better performance with a name-brand like Corsair. But yea, your Kingston modules will work just fine.
     
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    wobble987 Notebook Virtuoso

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    wow, thanks for that news. its nice anyway that they test it with mac, so you can be sure that what you're buying works 100% with your mac laptop.
     
    wobble987, Mar 14, 2008
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  4. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Well, considering that MACs really are no different than PCs...it doesn't matter if it is "mac-tested" or not.
     
    Greg, Mar 14, 2008
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    Hawkshark Notebook Consultant

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    (/sarcasm) Wow... Will that Uber-RAM work in my dell?! omg? (/sarcasm)
    I am not impressed with one more pseudo-clever marketing ploy.
     
    Hawkshark, Mar 14, 2008
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    they key word here is lower latency.....i'm assuming they're talking about CAS latency, seems like most SODIMMS now a days are 4-5
     
    panteedropper, Mar 14, 2008
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    The standard latency for DDR2-667 SODIMMs is 5-5-5 latency and these are the first publicly available DDR2-667 SODIMMs with 4-4-4 latency. (Infineon has had some DDR2-667 SODIMMs with 4-4-4 latency available for OEMs to order). It's interesting that Corsair decided to brand this as Mac memory, since I've been told by Mushkin that many notebooks lock the memory timings in the BIOS and would ignore a lower 4-4-4 timing in the SPD so I guess that isn't the case in the MacBook Pro. That 28% performance increase though doesn't seem very realistic just from a slightly lower latency.
     
    ltcommander_data, Mar 14, 2008
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