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mbp, jump from 2 gig of ram to 4, is there a diff ?
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So I see that 2 gig chips are 40$ ! WTF! They started at 400$ ! Anyway, so I am at 2 gigs now and use all sorts of art apps. The big question is that, I know it should be faster with 4 gigs, But, for it's motherboard, will I really see a big difference ?
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this has been asked and answered a zillion times. The short answer is: yes.
The long answer is: it depends on what you're doing. What more ram does it not make anything go faster per se, it just makes the machine slow down less. And only when you're using all the ram.
IMHO, for the money, everyone who used their machine a lot should max their RAM right now. it's so cheap. I maxxed my MBP from 2->3 (that's the most it could take) and it definitely runs parallels+matlab+photoshop+others much much better.
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Cool, thank you! Apologies for the repeat then.
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I noticed a big difference, I use vmware's fusion, photoshop and Aperture pretty heavily and I was pleasantly surprised at the improvement.
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Originally Posted by mduell 
amazing. 
lol that same upgrade costs what? 500$ 800$ on the apple store. lol
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it is indeed more expensive at the Store but when you buy ad the RAM yourself and your mac dies, Apple will replace the machine but with the original amount of RAM. then if you have my experience with the ibook G3 that has been replaced with a G4, it hurts to sit on 512 MB of RAM! 
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Originally Posted by zubro
it is indeed more expensive at the Store but when you buy ad the RAM yourself and your mac dies, Apple will replace the machine but with the original amount of RAM. then if you have my experience with the ibook G3 that has been replaced with a G4, it hurts to sit on 512 MB of RAM!
Take the upgraded RAM out before returning the machine.
Even if you left your RAM in and they took it, you've have to do over a dozen swaps before buying RAM from Apple makes sense ($850 vs ~$70 and falling).
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Originally Posted by zubro
it is indeed more expensive at the Store but when you buy ad the RAM yourself and your mac dies, Apple will replace the machine but with the original amount of RAM. then if you have my experience with the ibook G3 that has been replaced with a G4, it hurts to sit on 512 MB of RAM!
And they should have given you the machine with the same ram upgrade. Did you complain?
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