Yesterday, I went to the mall to shop for RAM. My MacBook originally comes with x2 1GB RAM in total of 2GB. Now I am running more stuff inside like VMWare and multitask a lot so I need the RAM to go to the max. Wonder why Apple don’t want to put in 1 2GB instead of 2 1GB. I have to extract the 2 1GB and throw it aside not using it and get 2 2GB RAM.
There’s some problem occur yesterday when buying RAM. MacBook couldn’t turn on after installing 2 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM and only 667 MHz works.
The person who help me insert the RAM was kinda un-tech conscious (n00b?) because he didn’t know where’s the RAM slot is. Maybe he works too much with PC and not the Mac. Took him sometimes to figure it out and insert the thing. Luckily I didn’t buy the RAM and insert it myself, else I would have to go back to change to 667 MHz again. A piece of 2GB RAM cost me RM180 (~56USD), not so cheap though.
After upgrading, the system is obviously faster, especially on the start-up and when running dual OS via VMWare. =)
1 comment
Tweets that mention Added x2 2GB DDR2 RAM into MacBook | iNicholas -- Topsy.com says:
May 20, 2010
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Nicholas Chan. Nicholas Chan said: New blog post #fb: Added x2 2GB DDR2 RAM into MacBook http://bit.ly/dkxOJ6 [...]