It never struck me that 512 megs of RAM would be inadequate. My eMac seems to do fine on 512 megs of Ram, even when three users have their desktops open and each of them have lots of applications running.But lately performance on my original MacBook, which came with 512 megs of RAM, has been dismally, frustatingly sloooooooow.
Saturday morning I got onto Google. I discovered the MacBook can take up to 2 Gigs of RAM, installed in one Gig chips, one in each slot. The cheapest price was at Memory Depot, $91.78 CDN, for the 2 GIG package. It was just a coincidence the CDN dollar is now on par with the USA dollar. After shipping and GST it came too $104.18.
It arrived Monday by Courier. Unfortunately I did not own a Philips screw driver with a small enough head, size 00, with which to undo the screws to access the RAM slots. I had too wait until yesterday, when I had time to buy it at the hardwood store. The size I wanted was only available in a set for $18. I bought it. Other than fix my glasses I can think of no other use for this lovely, expensive set of tiny screwdrivers? The last time I fixed one of my Macs I was forced to buy a set of torx screwdrivers.
With my ever expanding collection of specialized tools the guy at the hardwood store suggested I start fixing computers for a living. Hah!
Following the instructions in Apples tutorial I opened the back of my MacBook and installed the RAM. I found I had to push really really hard to get it to seat properly, so the computer could recognize it and start up. Other than that it is an extremely easy process.
The best thing, is that working on my MacBook and browsing the internet has become fun, easy and mindless, again.
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Now I feel like I need to bump up the 1.25 GB I have in my MacBook.
You should. Your RAM need is not as great as mine but hey why not.
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