Macbook - 2gb or 4gb ram?

If i were to buy the macbook 2.4gz off Apple, would you recommend getting the £84 upgrade to 4gb ram or just keeping the 2gb?

Would it be worth upgrading it myself after, or better not to?

Also, i'd like to clear up something re: the education discount, i read somewhere there is a default 3 year cover on parts and labour? So why bother with AppleCare?

 

If you do it yourself afterwards, its always cheaper.

So, i recommend doing it aftermarket.

See HERE to find out what type of memory it is and how to upgrade.

 

Don't waste your money. Your better off getting the aftermarket memory and puttiing in the modules yourself. It's quick, painless, and worthwhile.

 

Another recent discussion about 2GB VS 4GB: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=336914

 

thank you for the link... any word on the applecare situation?

 

The only way to get the 3 year support is with AppleCare. There's no other way around it, unless a specific store itself will honor the warranty (not Apple).

I do know that if your NVidia graphics chip burns out, then Apple will still honor that part to fix at their expense for the first 2 years you've had an MBP from the 2007 era (pre-unibody editions). I'm not sure if this applies to the new MacBook's and MacBook Pro's.

 

I know they used to, but i dont know if they do anymore.\
Wait for more replies for that topic.

 

Unless you buy RAM on ebay and risk getting dead RAM you won't really save money doing it your self, it use to be worth it because DDR2 RAM is a lot cheaper then DDR3 and then you could sell your 1 gb sticks of DDR2 but with DDR3 being a lot more, and the fact there is no market for DDR3 1gb sticks go with Apple.

 

I remain confused about the standard warranty with education, i read it is 3 years, so why bother with applecare?

 

It's one year, at least in the US.

 

I'm pretty sure that computer purchases through Apple have the 3 year AppleCare warranty standard (they do here in Canada at least).

 

See this is so confusing!

 

Really? That's news to me...as far as I know, its all one-year Apple Limited warranty, and AppleCare extends that for two more years, for a total of three years.

 

Yeah on the education site, it says:

Staff, students and institutions can all get:

1. Special pricing and discounts.
2. Dedicated Apple Store with two levels of user access (browse and purchase)
3. Special promotions
4. Special three year parts and labour coverage, with additional first-year warranty and support benefits, as standard
5. Special offer on AppleCare Protection Plan purchased at the same time as systems


http://www.apple.com/uk/education/hed/nationalcontract/

So three year parts and labour, is there really any need for AppleCare?

 

i guess from where you are from, your system are sold with applecare by default.

notice point 4 which says " ... with additional first-year warranty and support benefits, as standard"? this is the "1 year warranty" that most of us are getting. always amaze me how marketing guy twists the wording ...

i'll bet you system cost more because of point 5 - "Special offer on AppleCare Protection Plan purchased at the same time as systems", because this IS the applecare others have been mentioning in this thread.

 

It is kind of confusing, they are offering 3 year cover on labour and parts, but also saying there is a discount on applecare, is applecare merely the phone support service?

What is 'three parts cover and then only first year warranty' does that even make sense?

 

That's not true. Warranty through Apple is only one year in Canada. You have the option to purchase Apple Care for around CAD$299 (depends on the product)

 

Here is a link to Applecare prices in Canada:
http://linky.ca/d4dkbv

Applecare prices in USA:
http://linky.ca/p6tea3

Applecare prices in UK:
http://linky.ca/pktmes

Applecare can be purchased during the first year of owning the product (if bought new) and is valid for 2 additional years after the first year ends.

It also includes phone support for the duration of 3 years instead of 90 days

 

well this is what people do about RAM

they use ram to speed up their computers and this is what I would reccomend doing, you can use the 2GB ram for now and then in a couple months when you relieaze you're computer is slowing down get the 4GB of ram and then you're laptop will be fast but if you're the type of worker who works and plays new games released then get the 4GB of ram today and dont forgot to add more hard-drive capacity cause its much better.. ! good luck..

-Apple Geek

 

I would def recommend upgrading to 4GB or RAM.