Can anyone tell me where i can get a 1Gb ram for a decent price? What type of ram will be suitable for a MacBook Pro? Thanks

www.crucial.com

curical is good, the apple store in gurney plaza in penang are selling RAM's pretty cheap RM 699 for 2GB (1X1)

where are you from?

wah...! that good price..

can't find that kind of price at lowyat??

yea but it is not apple ram, made by other companies, not sure who, but must be from a reputable company else they will not sell.

I got my 2GB RAM from FCC Tech at Midvalley... A-Data RAMs... never heard of them but they work great... bsides, the preinstalled rams in my MB is some BP Hynix or some shit like tat...

price i got no longer applicable cause i got it at pc fair price...

This post has been edited by supafreak: Aug 17 2006, 06:39 PM

Thank you for all your feedback...i will try the FCC at Mid Valley. By the way, supfreak, did you install it your self or the shop did it for you?

i know the folks thr... so we sorta did it together... heheh... quite a simple process... remove battery, loosen 3 screw... then flip the 2 stupid latch.. it'll pop the rams out... get rid of the old... pop in the new... it takes abit effort to pop it in... so use LOTS of strength... heheh... u know u screwed up if the machine doesnt boot...

neeways, someone can do it for u if u dont wanna do it urself... go look for catherine...

Talked to Catherine...price has gone up now selling at Rm370 for 1G so for 2G the price is Rm740/- pretty expensive huh..

Yea... she gave me a call too... apparently my price was the PC Fair price... eeks... sorry dude... but still much cheaper than travellin to Penang for CG COmp.. hehe.. or buyin it at 500+ per 1GB stick... :-)

Sorry for misinfo...

why dont u guys start a bulk?
since many of u interested. just gather 3-4 fella, lug ur macbook and gather out one day. go to the shop and bargain gao gao

Good idea wei, maybe from RM740 can do down for RM6xx.

If u guys wanna do a bulk put me in, im thinking of getting a 1GB upgrade.

U see. Havnt started already got ppl interested. Quick guys, what u all waiting for.

Just remember to grab your MB/MBP along, with your hard cash or plastic card. Go to the shop, tell them u want the RAM and u have the cash, Im sure many of them will give u their best price.

Goodluck guys

sorry to highjack your thread, but does anybody know the best place in kl to upgrade ram for my iBook 1.33 . Its running a bit slow now.

Hi Guys, i'm back. I have just upgraded my RAM to another 1Gb...so i now have 1.5Gb in my MacBook Pro. The RAM i upgraded is a Kingston DDR2 KVR667. Cost : RM320/- at LYP.

Tested it for a few days now...and i am running on basic apps like Office 2004 and the original MAC OS Tiger...no problem so far. I use my notebook for at least 6 hours continuously...and its fine.

Will update you guys if anything comes along.

Wah, which shop in LYP? Do they let u test the ram in ur lappy first or anything?

my office is using the new imac 1.8ghz pentium...

it comes wiff 512MB (single SODIMM) of PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 memory; two SODIMM slots support up to 2GB

Q:can i just buy those adata or kvr rams on lyp? how much would they cost??? pls advise.... 1 imac need 2gb of rams...we need 8 pcs...

i might sell 4 x 512mb ddr2 cheap in da future, if my boss let me..sapa mau angkat tangan...

Me Me, that is if can test first on my MacBook..heheh.

anyone try corsair ram yet?

Well, the shop did allow me to try out first and even waited for the machine to warm up as he says most of the time problem will occur when the machine is hot.

Well so far no problem as i am using the notebook almost 8 hours a day. The shop was Sri Computer at LYP and the ram i bought was Kingston 1Gb DDR2-667 CL5 SODIMM ...rm320.

Guys, issit worthwhile to upgrade to 1GB? Im not into video editing and stuff..just a little bit of photo editting.

you'll see overall improvement once u add more RAM.
If you dont do it now, you can always hold on till u comfortable to do so.
RAM is getting cheaper as we move on.

dude... totally worth it... any RAM boost is just super... i got juz A Data RAM... and it works like charm... 2GB sumore... totally worth each cent...

ur on imac or mb?

i thought macbook RAMs have to be upgraded in pairs??

correct me if i;m wrong....

Yes & No, that is Mac Pro that you MUST have a matching pair. Macbook see this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303721



which Apple didnt say you must have a matching pair. u can always mix brand. but it depends on ur luck.

This post has been edited by wei: Aug 24 2006, 09:46 AM

junkieG... I'm on a MB...

erm... very interesting signature...

Is there a big difference in performance if we use matching pair of rams compared to using non-matching pairs?

Since we're talking about RAM, does any1 know where I can find some sdram PC100 for an old iMac G3 400 Mhz?

This post has been edited by Jokersson: Aug 28 2006, 04:48 PM

after u guys change the rams...what do u do with the old ones???

i traded in mine...

Can try lelong.com. I bought mine there few months ago = 256MB SDRAM PC133

how much did u trade it?

wanna ask if i buy only 1 stick of 1gb kvr will it work on macbook? or need to get 2 x 512mb??

This post has been edited by gmail: Aug 31 2006, 07:49 PM

I tried my friend's macbook. It's the white macbook that is 1.8Ghz and 512MB of ram, just normal usage of the laptop is slow. Like websurfing can notice that is is slow. If run browser with msn messenger chatting at the same time also slow, click on software to run, the start up time also slow. The worst is to click to run office. Super slow. I wonder, I have always been a pc user. Is this slow due to the lack of ram as the software used in macos is ram hungry? My friend not yet install XP on his macboook yet, so I don't get to try how the macbook response in XP environment. Would adding a ram help or boosting the CPU speed? I like the macbook and thinking of getting one. After trying with it, i like the interface and all, but just hate it as it is slow and makes me have to wait for every execution.

Actually it is not so slow like you said. From my experience with my girl's MB, with 512MB RAM, everything runt just fine, but not too slow. Some applicatio surely takes time to open but the icon in the dock not bouncing until 10 times, the longest, I tried is Photoshop and Office, around 8 to 9 bouncing icon

That's it, the bouncing thing, it's roughly like 5 to 7 bounces for msn messenger main window to pop out. that is like 4 to 6 seconds. My windows takes around 2 secs for the main window of msn to pop out after clicking. Though some of you may find that extra 3 to 4 secs is negligible, I find it annoying. To change from one window to the other, say msn chat window to web browser is takes the screen around 1 sec to change it, but in windows, it changes immediately. Those type of things we do everytime, and imagine and increase in 1 sec delay for each stuff.

Even when there's typo error, the backspace speed is notably slower. I think most of those who had used windows would notice it. Though it's like very slightly, but I can feel it. Does anyone share my same experience out there?

Lastly, does increasing ram or having a higher clock speed cpu for macbook solve this problem? I like macbook very much, but the slight lag in speed is annoying me.

Microsoft hate Apple, dont you get it?
Use something like Adium!

i traded it in for chicken feed la dude... less than 100bucks... better that than gettin nothing for somethin i'll chuck away anyways...

I dont think it'll work... cause i stuck one 1GB in it first and tried booting, nothing happened... when 2 sticks r in, phwwooaarrr....

It runs less hot now... and the apps launch much faster... neeways, if u read Vandetta's comment, 512 is indeed enough but if u r a kiasu speedfreak like me, then u wanna go upgrade lor...

So tempted to get the iMacs!...