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    2 gigs

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by 00fez, Dec 12, 2007.

  1. 00fez

    00fez Notebook Deity

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    I've bought 2x1gb of kingston ram today :D Leopard is a lot smoother, specially the dock and some animations. Apps open faster, cover flow works perfect now (not that it was bad before), and now I can run parallels all the time without hogging resources from osx! :D

    Oh yes, WoW runs like 15-20% faster under bootcamp :D :D

    I shall celebrate by drinking a nice bottle of wine while playing WoW shortly. Of course if my gf decides to show up then my solo computer party will be ruined, so I will switch to a party where I will open all the apps I can at once, and and and all the movies I can at once.

    *is a loser*
     
  2. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    My 2 GB of RAM still hasn't arrived yet! :p

    Same with my Creative EP-630s...both are on backorder!! Ugh! :D
     
  3. AuroraS

    AuroraS Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yeah... I recently got 2GB Corsair RAM for my MacBook as well. Leopard is a bit smoother and apps load faster... especially those requiring Rosetta (i.e. Office 04)
     
  4. Xander

    Xander Paranoid Android

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    Apple should make 2GB RAM standard on ALL their computers.
     
  5. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    I agree :).
     
  6. Sahin

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    They also should upgrade the GPU on the MBP!
     
  7. stealthsniper96

    stealthsniper96 What Was I Thinkin'?

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    theres always more upgrades to be done.....
    i will hopefully get 2gb of ram for christmas. along with leopard and a new hd. :)
     
  8. AuroraS

    AuroraS Notebook Virtuoso

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    I think they should make the Superdrive standard on all of their computers...
     
  9. mc511

    mc511 Notebook Evangelist

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    I agree auroras. That and 2 gigs of ram. Most pc companies dont do that and they reccomend 2 gigs all the time.
     
  10. Seth Oriath

    Seth Oriath Notebook Consultant

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    On Apple's lower-end line, they have always been just short of what you would call the "norm" for RAM (and sometimes HDD space). When 256 was the norm, the iBook or iMac would have only 128 baseline. 512, 256. I'm guessing it's costs that they're trying to save, although we all know that RAM isn't expensive at all.

    My guess: by the time that computers almost require 4GB to run well, then Apple will increase their lower-end models to 2GB.