Comments on: Study shows un-paired 3GB RAM is faster than paired 2GB RAM for the Macbook http://odetoapple.com/2007/study-shows-un-paired-3gb-ram-is-faster-than-paired-2gb-ram-for-the-macbook/ Dedicated to Apple - Mac, iPhone, iPod, iPad and all the awesomeness of Apple. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dale Musser http://odetoapple.com/2007/study-shows-un-paired-3gb-ram-is-faster-than-paired-2gb-ram-for-the-macbook/comment-page-1/#comment-1110 Dale Musser Sat, 19 May 2007 23:12:17 +0000 http://www.odetoapple.com/2007/study-shows-un-paired-3gb-ram-is-faster-than-paired-2gb-ram-for-the-macbook/#comment-1110 I bought a Macbook Pro in January with 2GB of RAM. Although it performs well, I can tell that I should have bought another 1GB of RAM. When I am using Adobe CS3 applications or the Apple Studio Pro apps I can tell that more RAM would have been good. Sometimes when I switch between apps I hear a lot of hard drive activity and there is a pause in being able to use the app. I assume that this is caused by cached memory being loaded because there wasn't sufficient RAM to hold it all. It is amazing as well how quickly I filled the 120GB hard drive. I should have taken the step up to the next larger hard drive as well. I moved to a Macbook Pro from a G4 Powerbook with 512MB RAM and 80GB of hard drive space. I thought I would have everything I need with 2GB of RAM and 120GB hard drive. But, with Parallels running and the ability to really work with digital media now there I have very quickly hit my resource limits. P.S. I'd love a Joost invite if you have one. :) I bought a Macbook Pro in January with 2GB of RAM. Although it performs well, I can tell that I should have bought another 1GB of RAM. When I am using Adobe CS3 applications or the Apple Studio Pro apps I can tell that more RAM would have been good. Sometimes when I switch between apps I hear a lot of hard drive activity and there is a pause in being able to use the app. I assume that this is caused by cached memory being loaded because there wasn’t sufficient RAM to hold it all. It is amazing as well how quickly I filled the 120GB hard drive. I should have taken the step up to the next larger hard drive as well. 

I moved to a Macbook Pro from a G4 Powerbook with 512MB RAM and 80GB of hard drive space. I thought I would have everything I need with 2GB of RAM and 120GB hard drive. But, with Parallels running and the ability to really work with digital media now there I have very quickly hit my resource limits.

P.S. I’d love a Joost invite if you have one. :)

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