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My new macbook
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bearcatrp
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Oct 25, 2008, 10:55 AM
 
Just purchased the 2Ghz mac book and have to say I'm impressed so far. Still getting used to the touch pad. One question to new owners. If you upgraded to 4GB ram, did you see a noticeable difference? tnks
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Oct 25, 2008, 11:13 AM
 
If your using PS/aperture yes!! If your using safari and mail no!
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Oct 25, 2008, 12:24 PM
 
In the past, I typically notice a speed bump in going from 2 to 4 gig since OSX needs to swap to disk a lot less with the 4gig. The more you run at once the more you'll notice it. Also programs like photoshop and vmware are very cpu and ram bound so they would benefit the most.

Aperture on the other hand is really more dependent on the GPU and while it could benefit from the extra ram, I don't think it would be as noticeable.
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