I heard that the ram on the macbook air is glued to the motherboard. Does anyone know of a way to upgrade it to 4gb, because 2gb might become too constraining? If not, do you think they might come out with a 4gb version soon?
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perhaps they will use 4gb after the back to school promotion.. you could unsolder the current 2gb and stick in a 4gb one if you know about computer hardware a bit.
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you dont want to mess with soldering on that type of a board, you either are gong to be VERY good at it, or have very expensive soldering tools... or your motherboard will be toast.
Basically you cannot change the ram since its made as part of the board, and not in standard ram slots. -
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You wil be better of selling it while 2gb is still an acceptable memory size, and getting a 4gb version.
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*IF* Apple releases a 4GB version.
MB Air is stuck at 2GB right now no matter how you look at it. -
Yep, and that sucks, as that's essentially the single deal-breaker for me. Can't run OS X and Windows side by side with 2GB of RAM. (at least not well
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i have like 400mb ram to spare while watching a film in mac, safari open, itunes open, papralells on with msn running in it and downloading in utorrent in paralells.
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XP and OSX works fine with 1GB each. Heck XP works fine with 512MB of RAM lol.
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XP can run on 128mb ram, vista only really needs 512mb. 1gig to run aero optimally. I don't see a problem with running OS X and vista on 2gigs. Just give a gig to each.
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i don't know why vista was lagging on my laptop. it was lagging so much that i decided to install w7 rc. see my config in my sig...
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masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook
w7 or xp will do a lot better.
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I ran OS X and XP with Fusion on 2GB of RAM no problem. It can be done no worries. The only reason I upped to 4GB is I found a good deal. I notice it is a bit more responsive but nothing to write home about.
any way of making macbook air have 4GB ram?
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by aamadi, Jul 30, 2009.