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    New MacBook Ram upgrade

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by BigZAJ, Oct 28, 2008.

  1. BigZAJ

    BigZAJ Notebook Enthusiast

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    I bought a new MacBook last week at the Apple store, I wanted to upgrade to 4gig's of ram, but they did not have the memory in stock. The manager gave me a voucher for the 4gig kit for $150 (the upgrade price). They have no clue when they will be getting the ram kits in stock and I am getting impatient being told everyday it will be in tomorrow. So now I am looking at ram elsewhere, I have seen 3 kits on Newegg:

    Crucial - $121.98
    Patriot - $159.98
    G. Skill - $117.98

    Which of these would be a good upgrade for the MacBook?
     
    BigZAJ, Oct 28, 2008
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  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    Mostly personal preferences. I used no-name brand on my macbook, never suffered any performance issues - and they are cheap.

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Oct 28, 2008
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  3. livesoft

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    Except if they have some special fancy features like heatsinks or better advertised performance or whatever, I don't think there's a big performance difference. Consider the reputation of the brand and the warranty maybe...
     
    livesoft, Oct 28, 2008
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