Were you cheap like me, and bought the cheaper of the two MacBook Pro’s? the one with only 1Gb of ram? tsk tsk…
As long as I’ve had it, I’ve been slightly disappointed with the performance of this supposedly lightning fast notebook. Recently I actually stopped to look at how the memory was doing with the Activity Monitor, and not surprisingly it was sitting on about 1Gb constantly… obviously short of RAM. It only takes running my standard everyday things to do it: Mail, Firefox, iCal, iTunes, Terminal, Emacs, maybe X as well, and it’s all over. And that’s without using iPhoto, Maple, some Python plotting windows or other miscellaneous stuff like rsync’ing 100Gb to my external drive for a backup…
So yesterday I put another Gb in, and voila! It’s a whole new computer, and does things when I ask it. So if you were cheap like me, go spend the $60 or so dollars it costs for a whole new machine!
where you get the ram upgrade at? cause its obviously better to get the ram upgrade and buy the cheaper pro yes? do you know where i can buy the pro cheap as posible in sydney thanks Paul
you buy ram pretty much anywhere on the interweb… and there isn’t such a thing as a cheap mac if you buy it new, they cost the same however you do it unless you get an academic discount. g
Honestly, most laptops could do with a heavy helping of RAM. My plan is to get myself a MacBook Pro, but with the RAM maxed out. As my graphic design programs eat memory like nobody’s business…