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    Finally bought a Macbook. RAM question

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by brewerfan, Nov 12, 2007.

  1. brewerfan

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    Installing RAM on many notebooks is surprisingly easy, upgrading anything else though is asking for trouble.
     
    scadsfkasfddsk, Nov 12, 2007
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    Not necessarily...upgrading the hard drive on the MacBook is very easy as well...if you know how to upgrade RAM, you'll know how to upgrade the hard drive. Just taking out the battery and pulling out the hard drive and putting a new one in its spot :p.
     
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    Sam you forgot the part where there are Hex screws on the HD cage! Normally, if it was philips screws it would have been a much quicker process.
     
    CitizenPanda, Nov 12, 2007
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    Just be prepared you'll need a Torx T-08 screwdriver for the HDD - at least on new SR macbook.
     
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    I'm pretty sure my new Macbook had Hex screws, not Torx screws. However, you don't need a special screw driver, any small wrench that can grip the sides of the screws is capable of turning it (and you can do the rest by hand). A pain indeed.
     
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    Does the MBP come with 2x1GB or 1x2GB?
     
    olphus, Nov 13, 2007
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    The MBPs come with 2x1GB by default.
     
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    brewerfan, I just took the two smaller ram cards out of my new Macbook and inserted a Gb in each slot. Easy! I followed the instructions on the Apple site. Got the ram from Crucial since I've always gotten my ram there and never had a problem.
     
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    my 4GB gets here tomorrow :) 1gb sux
     
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    Haha, no, 1 GB of RAM doesn't suck, its just not that great :p. 2 GB of RAM is excellent for running Leopard smoothly on top of more RAM intensive applications, and of course even more is better.
     
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    So I bought the 2GB of RAM that I have linked at the beginning of the post. Initially I didn't push hard enough. When they say push hard, they mean push hard.

    In my about my Mac page it shows that I now have 4GB of Memory. Is this an error?
     
    brewerfan, Nov 15, 2007
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    Well, if you bought 2 GB RAM (2x1 GB), and you put it in and took out the previous ones, then yes, it sounds like an error :p.

    Try ejecting the RAM and putting it back in (remember to push hard this time! :p), see if it fixes itself.
     
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    it works fine. i pushed it in hard and did my computer twice. I bought the same RAM for my girlfriend, did the same process on her identical computer, and got the same results (4GB of memory displayed in about this Mac).

    They both run fine and seem to run a little faster (than before install) when they open things. Both shipping boxes said they were only 2x1.
     
    brewerfan, Nov 15, 2007
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    That's funny...getting 4 GB of RAM while paying for 2! :p
     
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