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ginoledesma · May 24, 2006 , 02:15 AM

Outpost has a great deal for Mushkin 1GB PC2 5300 SO-DIMM for $87.99 (less $20 mail-in rebate) good til 5/25. It's limited to 1 per household, though. It doesn't turn up in their product listings or search -- I found it by chance on their Anniversary Sale list on page 5.

trinlyovarin · May 24, 2006 , 02:23 AM

How is Mushkin for quality?

Socially Awkward Solo · May 24, 2006 , 09:19 AM

Just the name alone scares me.

ginoledesma · May 24, 2006 , 07:19 PM

Mushkin is known to make high-performance RAM, with the same credibility as that of Crucial, Kingston, Corsair, et al. They've been around a pretty long time, too. :-) They're pretty synonymous with "overclocking" in the PC world way back since.

oexecbmug · May 27, 2006 , 09:57 PM

As a PowerBook 1.67 user - I just purechase 2 1-gb of Ram Kingston from Fry's Outpost for 84.99 each. Installed for five days now, and all is working great. Yea - I waited till the price dropped below 100 { and did it drop - way below

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this is just a fyi note

Eug Wanker · May 27, 2006 , 11:12 PM

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Just the name alone scares me.

Mushkin is a well-respected brand.

Originally Posted by Shawn_230

Take a look.... I'm pretty sure this'll work for the MBP. I was contemplating these ones myself...

Yup. That seems right, and the comments say it works fine in the MB and MBP. Excellent price.

Anyways, I got my Samsung RAM a few days ago, and this MacBook truly flies with 2 GB. I dunno what it'd be like with only 1 GB (2x512), but I figured I may as well splurge, since my GF often uses my computers but sometimes leaves apps open in the background in her account.

oexecbmug · May 30, 2006 , 05:33 PM

What other, if any Macs, can use the 512 I took out of my PowerBook 1.67?

HouseSold · Jun 6, 2006 , 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by oexecbmug

What other, if any Macs, can use the 512 I took out of my PowerBook 1.67?

Muskin will make good swiftly if you should ever have memory difficulties.

We purchased a matched pair of 1gb sticks for our MacBooks from Mushkin and saw remarkable speed increases, especially running XP Pro in Parallels interface.

See: http://www.mushkin.com/doc/products/guide/apple/?app=38

There's a guy named Cris Doud in Tech Support (800.569.1868x208) who's the most responsive technician I've ever encountered by phone.

They had a matched pair out overnite to us.

We replaced the Hynix branded 256mb pair standard Apple installed memory with the Mushkin.

MickeyZ · Jun 18, 2006 , 06:54 PM

If anyone is interested, I got a 1GB memory stick from Lifetime for my 15" MBP 2.16GHz and it works fine, running at 667MHz.

Jason · Jun 30, 2006 , 09:22 AM

Howdy guys,
I was just wondering if anyone uses Cosair ram in their Macbook Pro. I purchased a 1 gig stick today, and I'm now waiting on delivery, although i've read some forums that have stated that the ram doesn't particularly like the MBP's.

So if this really is a widespread issue, maybe someone can tell me and i'll send an email to the shop and tell them that i want to change the order before it gets sent out. Also if anyone has used or does actually use Cosair ram in the MBP, i would really appreciate you letting me know that it works fine! or if it doesn't work at all, please let me know that!

here is a link to the exact ram i purchased:
http://www.techbuy.com.au/products/5...lue_Select.asp

Thanks everyone.

Jason.

threestain · Jul 14, 2006 , 06:43 AM

I've just bought and installed a 512MB RAM stick from crucial and I have to say it's made my TiBook feel amazingly quick!

pinktank · Jul 19, 2006 , 07:01 PM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146123

get this one, mushkin is a really good brand

oexecbmug · Jul 19, 2006 , 07:13 PM

With mail in rebate - the price is a sure bet. Memory price keeps getting better every month.

macboy · Jul 20, 2006 , 05:23 PM

Hey guys - Got a quick question about upgrading my ram on my Powerbook 17" 1.5 .. I already have a gig in here, I need to upgrade to 2GB.

Now I know I cant use the DDR ram in the PB in a future MBP or an iMac (or can I?), but if I were to buy a MBP and get 2GB ram for it from Crucial or some place, will I be able to use that same ram in an iMac , mini and Mac?Pro?

JAYGEE · Jul 21, 2006 , 04:59 PM

Need some help... its time to buy more ram. Its for my Powerbook 5,8 1.67Ghz looking to buy 1 Gig pos. 2. What is the best type of ram for me. Installing my self will this void my warranty.

thanks

SierraDragon · Jul 24, 2006 , 12:14 PM

IMO it is nuts to even consider buying anything but quality RAM from quality vendors. Troubleshooting flaky RAM can cost scores of hours. Personally I have always bought OWC or from Smalldog with a new box.

Apple claims to be changing their RAM pricing policy; I guess we will see when the WWDC announcements show in the Apple Store.

-Allen Wicks

SierraDragon · Jul 24, 2006 , 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by JAYGEE

Need some help... its time to buy more ram. Its for my Powerbook 5,8 1.67Ghz looking to buy 1 Gig pos. 2. What is the best type of ram for me. Installing my self will this void my warranty.

Go to <http://otherworldcomputing.com/> and look it up, or call them.

Installing RAM yourself will not void the warranty as long as you do not break anything.

-Allen Wicks

Crasian · Aug 8, 2006 , 09:50 AM

Would it make a difference in my 1.25 ghz Powerbook to install a 1 gig ram stick and pair it with my 512? Or should I just get a 512 to make it 2x512.

Is there any optimization either way?

mduell · Aug 8, 2006 , 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by Crasian

Would it make a difference in my 1.25 ghz Powerbook to install a 1 gig ram stick and pair it with my 512? Or should I just get a 512 to make it 2x512.

Is there any optimization either way?

The PowerBook's memory controller doesn't support dual-channel, so matching module size doesn't matter. You're better off with more RAM.

iChelle · Aug 12, 2006 , 12:27 PM

Ok here's a question. I bought Mushkin 2GB RAM from newegg for my PB 17" 1.67Ghz. I remember reading that the PB's RAM specs ran at 333Mhz but the RAM I bought runs at 533Mhz:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146440
Is this why my PB keeps on freezing? I am looking at the system profiler and it says the status of both modules are OK and are running at 444...However, I don't know why else the PB would be freezing up/getting kernel panics...

mduell · Aug 12, 2006 , 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by iChelle

Ok here's a question. I bought Mushkin 2GB RAM from newegg for my PB 17" 1.67Ghz. I remember reading that the PB's RAM specs ran at 333Mhz but the RAM I bought runs at 533Mhz:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146440
Is this why my PB keeps on freezing? I am looking at the system profiler and it says the status of both modules are OK and are running at 444...However, I don't know why else the PB would be freezing up/getting kernel panics...

No, the clockrate thing has nothing to do with it. Apple went with 533Mhz DDR2 because it's cheap, but the system controller for the G4s only supports running it at 333Mhz.

The crashed are probably from buying cheap low quality RAM. Do they stop when you take the Mushkin out?

iChelle · Aug 12, 2006 , 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by ginoledesma

Mushkin is known to make high-performance RAM, with the same credibility as that of Crucial, Kingston, Corsair, et al. They've been around a pretty long time, too. :-) They're pretty synonymous with "overclocking" in the PC world way back since.

This person says Mushkin is respectable RAM so I was inclined to buy it and didn't think it was "low quality." I haven't taken the Mushkin 2GB out yet but will do a test of the stock RAM when I get a chance...