RAM on a macbook pro 2012

I have been looking at youtube videos regarding changing the RAM on my macbook pro.
Is there a big difference from 4GB of RAM to 8GB ?
My macbook is still very new and under full warrenty both with apple and the store where it was bought.
If i was to change it to 8GB would i be best taking it to apple to do this to keep the warrenty in order and
would i see a difference with the speed that my macbook pro works ?
Thanks

Trophy376 wrote:
Is there a big difference from 4GB of RAM to 8GB ?
Not if your uses are mostly email, web, and office in one app at a time. 4GB is fine for that.
If you edit graphics and photos a lot, as a student or for a living, 8GB is more or less required. Or if you like to keep a lot open, like lots of browser tabs or lots of programs open at the same time.
I was doing some high-res photo/video work the other day and I ran out of RAM very quickly on an 8GB Mac because of the number of apps I had open and the size of the documents. 16GB would have been great for that type of work.

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