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    OMG we can have 6 or 8GB in macbook pro

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by unixphone, Oct 4, 2008.

  1. unixphone

    unixphone Notebook Consultant

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  2. BlackMac

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    Crap, that's an insane amount of ram! I thought 4 gigs was enough :D
     
    BlackMac, Oct 4, 2008
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  3. Sam

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    I doubt its necessity :p. At least for now, definitely there isn't a real need for anything above 4 GB of RAM.

    If you're really up for it, you can get 32 GB of RAM on the Mac Pro desktop :D.
     
    Sam, Oct 4, 2008
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  4. unixphone

    unixphone Notebook Consultant

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    well... i just didnt know we can do that
    hehe im using 2GB and i am doing fine with it.
    i might upgrade to 8gb if 4gbx2 is umm say $180. I will run Ubuntu in vmware all the time :)
     
    unixphone, Oct 4, 2008
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  5. BlackMac

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    :drools:


    :p
     
    BlackMac, Oct 4, 2008
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    plasma. herpyderpy

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    uh yeh, maybe not $180, more like $1000.
     
    plasma., Oct 4, 2008
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    Wow, that's awesome.

    I don't know why but I often exceed my 4GB and end up with a 2GB swap file... sometimes because of memory leaks. Sometimes because I run 3 Eclipse instances, VMWare @ 1GB, Photoshop, and iPhoto as well as the usual apps that are always open like Mail, Safari, etc.

    Hmmm... I just notice that the "why do I need 8GB of RAM"-rationalization-process has set in... ;)
     
    orthorim, Oct 4, 2008
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    it doesn't really look like it has been officially declared to work properly, but it looks like it could be that way.

    I could seriously use 8gb of ram if this is actually going to work properly, photoshop, maya, after effects, etc. are ram hungry monsters.
     
    circa86, Oct 4, 2008
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    And for a mere $9100 more than the 2GB originally installed! [​IMG]
     
    bmwrob, Oct 4, 2008
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  10. plasma.

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    oh yeh, like we've all got an extra 10k just lying around the house. Im sleeping in 100bills right now ;)
     
    plasma., Oct 4, 2008
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    Is this for the Santa Rosa versions of the MacBook Pro's??? Please say it is...
     
    dbam987, Oct 4, 2008
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    Ehh... at work I have run out of memory (8GB), twice...
     
    domyalex, Oct 4, 2008
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  14. ltcommander_data

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    That's what the MacRumours thread claims.
     
    ltcommander_data, Oct 4, 2008
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  15. unixphone

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    santa and penryn because others only supports up to 3.25GB
     
    unixphone, Oct 5, 2008
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    penryn is a processor. it runs on the santa rosa platform.

    i upgraded from 2GB to 4GB for about $10 (i sold the 2 GB).

    I would go from 4GB to 8 GB if the price was right. something on the order of $10 i think.
     
    masterchef341, Oct 5, 2008
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    "640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981

    For most people 4gb will probably be the new sweet spot, but its nice to know that that is no longer the ceiling.

    a
    :)
     
    Underpantman, Oct 5, 2008
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  18. Modly

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    I've had 6GB of RAM in my Mac Pro since March... I could use another 2GB some times though.

    bmwrob; The RAM for the Mac Pro has come down in price quite well, and aftermarket RAM would cost you $1800 to get it to 32GB.

    I know myself, and within 3 years, I'll have mine up to at least 20GB. Of course, the prices will have dropped substantially by then too... And who knows, 8GB chips might be usable then too.
     
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  19. ltcommander_data

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    Well that's certainly possible for current Mac Pros. The 5400X chipset supports 38-bit addressing with up to 128GB RAM support in a 16x8GB configuration. Currently Leopard only supports 36-bit addressing through PAE for 64GB support, but Snow Leopard is supposed to support 44-bit addressing for 16TB of RAM.
     
    ltcommander_data, Oct 5, 2008
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  20. Modly

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    Now you are going too far in the future :p

    I would be perfectly satisfied with just 1TB of RAM.
     
    Modly, Oct 5, 2008
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    I've got 4gigs in my iMac, and I've tried to hammer this machine to get it to show some slowness/sluggishness in performance. Has yet to happen
     
    diggy, Oct 6, 2008
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  22. dbam987

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    Run several virtual machines with XP/Vista... you'll get there in a heartbeat. :p :D
     
    dbam987, Oct 6, 2008
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