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    Ram upgrade Macbook 13'

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by poliuy, Apr 30, 2009.

  1. poliuy

    poliuy Notebook Evangelist

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    My girlfriend has a Macbook 13' and recently she told me a problem with it, everytime she opens Word the system slows down, big time. It sounded like a Ram problem because I know Word is mem hog, plus all her other programs running. Anyway the Macbook comes with 512mb which is crap and can barely run much of anything, I looked it up and its fairly easy to install, so this is where you guys come in.

    I need to find out how much Ram I can install (only 2? or up to 4? and can OSX even recognize 4?) and what Ram is compatiable (I thought Ram was universal, but I could be wrong) thanks a bunch :D
     
    poliuy, Apr 30, 2009
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    talin Notebook Prophet

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    Which macbook? The core 2 duo macbooks support up to 4GB RAM.
     
    talin, Apr 30, 2009
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    haquocdung Notebook Virtuoso

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    I am not very familiar with the old verison of macbook, but my educated guess is any kind of DDR2 will be good 4 u.
     
    haquocdung, Apr 30, 2009
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  4. poliuy

    poliuy Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm thinking of two gigs, but just wanted to know if apple had a specific brand type only.
     
    poliuy, Apr 30, 2009
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  5. poliuy

    poliuy Notebook Evangelist

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    Not sure why this thread was moved btw, if the mod who moved it would please view the title of the subforum for hardware you would see it includes upgrades, please move this thread back.
     
    poliuy, Apr 30, 2009
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    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Anybrand will be fine. Buy a 2GB stick for $10-15 and put it in the Macbook. it takes 5 minutes tops if you know hwat you're doing.
     
    jackluo923, Apr 30, 2009
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    It's very easy to upgrade. See the supplied apple manual. But remember, If you break something while upgrading, you void your warranty.
     
    Luke1708, Apr 30, 2009
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    Colton Also Proudly American

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    Could you specify when you bought/got it? That would help very much so on determining the most RAM you can put into your Macbook. For the first model of the Macbook, you can only have up to 2GB of DDR2 667MHz RAM. Here's a 2GB kit I found for you, if you have the first Macbook. ;)

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148087

    If you have the next one up, then it can be expandable to 4GB, but it will only see 3GB of it. Similar to Windows 32-bit OS. :p I would go with the highest amount you can get. ;) Here's a 4GB kit I found for you, if your computer can use it. It would be great if we could know your specific processor also. :)

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227251

    EDIT: Here's a link showing specs on the Macbook, and everything there is to know about them. ;)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbook
     
    Colton, Apr 30, 2009
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