my new macbook has 1gb now, need to upgrade and i am trying to decide on getting a single 2gb stick now and upgrading to 4gb later or just sticking with 2gb (1gb X 2).

anyone running 4gb - notice much diff?

i run vmware quite a bit for testing and 1gb is not cutting it.

also where is the best place to buy a 2gb value ram so-dimm for macbook?

as i understand it you can't void your warranty on the macbook by changing your own ram - only the warranty of the ram itself. i am confident in changing the ram, been tearing apart computers (and even fixing sometimes) since the early 90's.

I've seen some 4gb (2x2gb) macbook ram sets going for just over 100 USD - imagine within a few months prices should come down more over here in m'asia.

funny how something made in singapore is cheaper than in san jose than it is in kl. economies of scale so to speak.


i am leaning towards getting one 2 gb stick for 300 and upping it to 4 later.. i have the 965 chipset macbook so 4gb is supported.

with all the vista notebooks (and prob more once sp1 releases) there should be more demand here for 2gb so-dimms..


as for the mem better to be paired - looks like this is true, but not as important as having more ram. thanks for replies.

the new santa rosa chipset is running the fsb at 800 - does that mean it should have 800 Mhz memory instead of 667 Mhz ?

maybe yes, maybe no, lots of other threads here covering that. look for the value ram thread.

still unsure on 800mhz ram.

This post has been edited by llamasonic: Nov 17 2007, 05:13 PM

the late 2007 macbooks can address up to 4gb in mem

is memtest a download or already on the mac?

is that on the OS install dvd?