[Faceplant]

...OK, here goes.
I am going to buy a 2 GHz Macbook. It will be a nice upgrade from my G3 iBook which needs a new Reed cable for the screen. The Macbook, as you well know comes stock with two 256 ram sticks. I would eventually like the option of having 2 gig of ram but I do not really need that now. So, here is my question...
Can I install a 1gig stick (perhaps from Newegg) in the space where I pried one of the 256 jobbers out of the Macbook and have a total of 1.25Gig? Do they need to be balanced, that is, the same memory in each slot? When my ship comes in, perhaps I can then replace the other 256 stick with a more "Oomphy" one.

Any thoughts? Recomendations? And, and who put the bop in the bobty-bop-te-bop? Was it the same guy who put dip in the dip-te-dip-te-dip? I need to know, because I'd like to shake his hand.

[ibook_steve]

Of course you can have 1.25 GB. The only disadvantage is that you don't get the enhanced performance you would get with matched value sticks. I don't know if anybody has actually tested the performance difference, but it's there.

Steve

[ghporter]

Eug Wanker posted some very thorough test results a while back. The performance hit primarily affects video, since the MB has its video RAM as part of main RAM.