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Crucial tells me that this is what I need: http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listparts.aspx?mfr=A...
I currently have 4GB memory and things are crawling occasionally so I figure a memory upgrade is probably the way to go.
Are crucial the best people to buy from?
Is it a straightforward upgrade? Will I need any strange screw drivers or other tools?
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Bought from them a couple of weeks ago with zero issues - they were slightly cheaper than Kingston.
Very handy and cheap upgrade, but I was going from 2gb to 4gb on a 2007 machine (so that I could install Lion and move properly from MobileMe to cloud). Definitely more snappeh.
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Useful little app here to find the correct (Crucial) memory for a Mac.
Upgrading mine would be a hell of a lot cheaper than I expected...
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Are you going for the 16GB upgrade? I'd go for 8 at just over £30.
Crucial memory is as good as any (and about one-eighth the price that Apple charge!).
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Crucial tells me that this is what I need: http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listparts.aspx?mfr=A...
I currently have 4GB memory and things are crawling occasionally so I figure a memory upgrade is probably the way to go.
Are crucial the best people to buy from?
Is it a straightforward upgrade? Will I need any strange screw drivers or other tools? Hi there,
When I upgraded the RAM in my 21.5" i5 iMac a couple of months ago, I shopped around for best pricing and try as hard as I did, I couldn't beat Jigsaw for pricing - IIRC it was £30 Ex. VAT for 8Gb 1333MHZ DDR3 . 
I hope this info helps. 
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Is it a straightforward upgrade? Will I need any strange screw drivers or other tools?
Very easy - I upgraded my 2011 15" i7 three weeks ago from 4GB to 8GB.
OWC in the USA have videos on how to take the back panel off your MacBook and fit memory:
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/
Choose the right Mac and click the link for Memory, Hard Disk or whatever you're upgrading.
James - be* pro - 16.8mbps sync - BQM
FTTC cab arrived 18-jun-2012 (due Mar 2011) - Openreach estimate 44.6Mbps / 6.5Mbps
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I've gone for 8GB from Amazon.
Crucial's website wasn't playing ball with Safari so I gave up.
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Crucial's website wasn't playing ball with Safari so I gave up. Odd, it worked fine for me 
I'm impressed with Crucial... I ordered a 2GB to 4GB upgrade for the MacBook late on Tuesday evening, by noon today it was installed and running
Now considering whether to upgrade the iMac from 4GB to 16GB... not sure if I really need it, but the price is reasonable and you can never have too much RAM 
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Crucial has always worked well with Safari for me
When I upgraded my memory I looked at the price for 4GB and 8GB and decided just to max it out
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It was very tempting and (at least where hi-tech toys are concerned) I'm not very good at resisting temptation... so upgrade to 16GB ordered
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lucky you - I could only go to 8GB
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I have 12GB in my mid 2010 iMac and am occasionally tempted to replace the original 2GB modules with 4GB ones.
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It's slightly sobering to realise that just one of the new memory modules (costing <£20) contains more1 only slightly less RAM than all my old computers put together, and more than twice the total HDD space of the first two 
1 edit- I forgot one of them 
Edited by billford (Thu 12-Jul-12 15:23:29)
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I've currently got 2GB in my Late-2008 Aluminium Macbook running Lion and it absolutely crawls. I'm going to pickup the Corsair 8GB DIMMS, even though Apple claim that this model maxes out at 4GB - there seems to be much success with upgrading it to 8.
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It is. I can still remember my first hard drive, it was 10MB (yes MB) and it was the size of a shoe box. (full height 5.25 MFM).
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It is. I can still remember my first hard drive, it was 10MB (yes MB) and it was the size of a shoe box. (full height 5.25 MFM).
I remember a 10MB HDD on an expansion card in the late 80s (would have been ISA slots) - Western Digital product. It was only marginally quicker than the floppy disks but the capacity was incredible.
James be* pro (16.8 / 1.2 sync) - BQM - FTTC cab installed 18-jun-2012 - not yet active - est 44.6 / 6.5
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I can still remember my first hard drive, it was 10MB (yes MB) Apart from removable Winchesters on a couple of mini-computers, that's the same size as the first HDD I used, but it was on a work computer (an ACT Sirius) not one of my own.
It seemed a vast amount of space at the time
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...so upgrade to 16GB ordered And the postie handed it to me at 10:30 this morning, twenty minutes later installed and all back up again!
Well done Crucial
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Update:
As previously stated I went for the 8GB upgrade from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005JRH9V2/ref=oh...
My memory usage, according to Activity Monitor, seemed to run at around 6GB with OS X 10.7 but that's jumped up to 7-8GB with 10.8. Everything feels a bit quicker so I'm quite happy with the upgrade. 16GB would have been overkill for my needs.
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Update 2: Not so good.
One of the modules was faulty but only really started playing up after I updated to 10.8.2 so, for ages, I thought it was a software problem and had been trying to reinstall OS X, which just [censored] everything up completely!
My question is... is it possible to create a bootable USB drive for memory testing? www.memtest86.com seems to offer a way of creating such a USB drive but only from Linux. Is there an OS X solution?
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Never had an issue with Crucial even when returning RAM because I thought it was causing strange behaviour when waking from sleep (the machine was spontaneously rebooting). They replaced it with no questions asked and the new RAM worked without problems (proving my case).
It is worth noting that they do always religiously follow Apple's specs, which are often not what they appear to be so it is worth checking online what your Mac is capable of in terms of maximum RAM and specs not what Apple say it is. To prove that point I'm using an original unibody Macbook here. Apple and Crucial will tell you that it maxes out at 4Gb (2x2Gb), but it uses 8Gb (2x4Gb) just fine. I had the same deal with a Powerbook that could take double the RAM Apple and Crucial said it could.
Des
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