Advice needed for RAM upgrade MBP 2.4G/15.4" C2D

I shall shortly be getting the 2.4 GHz MBP Core 2 Duo with the standard 2GB RAM that I intend on upgrading to 4 GB and was wondering which of the following to choose. It'ld be nice if you could tell me which ones would be a good deal with no performance hit ... and also which one is actually the best of the lot.
I will have to go for 2x2GB ... here are the options -
1. Transcend 2GB @$97.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208323
2. Corsair 2GB @ $124.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145172
3. G.Skill 2x2GB @ 234.99 (i.e. price for each 2 GB is ~ $117)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231135
4. Crucial 2GB @ $ 139.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148087
5. Mushkin 2x2GB @ $260 (i.e. 2GB @ $130)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146684
6. Supertalent 2GB @ $119.48
http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=T667SB2G_M&show=r#
7. Samsung (Atleast I think it is?) 2GB @ 139.98
http://www.memoryx.net/apple2gbddr2s.html
Opinions would be really welcome...
thanks

Geil 4 gig kit $215 (after rebate)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144066
i have this kit in my SR MBP and its great, same memory spec as required and runs awesome. Did a Rember test on it and passed.
it even fit with the "heat spreaders/short protectors"

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I'm hoping to seek the expert views of the community here.
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http://www.crucial.com
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psilovefood wrote:
Hi. I own a Late 2011 MBP and its been acting a little slow lately. its not really slow, but the booting does take longer than before. and applications take a little more time to open for the first time than before. since i need to run quite a bit of heavy applications for my college use,
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Not necessarily.
Also will it support an 8+8 GB RAM upgrade, or should i go for a 4+4 GB RAM upgrade instead?
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Currently, my Activity Monitor shows page in/out as
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It matters a great deal where you purchase your RAM at, because at the factory RAM gets tested and if it's not as perfect it's shipped at a discount to middleman retailers / brick and mortar stores where the users are bargain hunters and/or can afford the extra work trying to make it work and returning it if it doesn't.
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I recommend Crucial.com as they are the retail branch of Micron who make the memory themselves, thus more inclined to give people who come to them directly the top tier RAM as to avoid tarnishing their reputation.
When you purchase your RAM elsewhere, even if it's Crucial RAM, even if it's a reputable site, there is a issue of risk that the RAM isn't as up to snuff as it can be.
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Hey guys, im kinda new to the whole mac world and so far im loving it. I need to upgrade my ram in my macbook pro. Right now im running 2 x 2gb ram at 1333MHz. What would be considered a true upgrade for me? If you need more info just ask, im not really technically inclined.. I need the upgrade because i use Final Cut Pro on a daily basis and it seems to max out my ram, please any advice would be appreciated.
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It appears that you need to step back and rethink your business. Heck, we don’t even know that you have a business. What you’re up to might just be personal editing. So I apologize if what I’m about to say overestimates you or underestimates you.
FORMAT
You say, “suitable for working with HDV”, but you don’t say whether you MUST work with HDV. As others in this thread have pointed out, HDV is a “poor man’s Hi-Def”. It compresses images so diabolically in Long GOP that image quality suffers, and, as Shane points out, “the long GOP format is very complex and takes a LOT of time to do things.”
The other extreme is recording and editing in 1080i/p at 4K. Very few people in this world demand extreme quality. So, the best format overall is DVCPro HD. Today, DVCPro HD cameras cost only about a third more than the next nearest HDV. What’s more important, to me, is that DVCPro allows you to move away from having to use tape at all. It’s the year 2008 (almost). Tape is over. If it’s too late to sell your camera and switch, then so be it.
STORAGE
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Buy an empty enclosure that you can populate with your own drives. That way, you can use 1TB bare drives. (Don’t buy anything smaller.) You can put together a stack of 5 1TB drives in an eSATA RAID box for less than $2,000.
RAID
You say, “PowerMac G5 2GHz Dual...via PCIe card”. You mean PCIx card. PCIe is for Intel Macs.
You write, “I want RAID (esp. RAID 5... If a drive fails I want to simply be able to swap a new drive in, restore, and be under way again.” But several of your comments indicate that you really don’t need in-line failsafe. For that reason, let me recommend mirroring or something even simpler: a backup drive.
JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) treats each drive in your stack as a separate volume. So, what you see on your desktop is Drive_01, Drive_02. If you subtract the cost for the RAID controller (in the box or in your PCI slot), you can afford to buy TWO plain JBOD boxes, and maintain one as redundant. That satisfies your, “If a drive fails I want to simply be able to swap a new drive in, restore, and be under way again.” In fact, you can skip the “restore” part.
Ken Summerall wrote: “If you are shooting HDV then you have the tapes, those are your backups. If a drive goes down you recapture.”
You responded, “that is not the same as having redundancy of data - and simply being able to swap in a new drive and do a restore.”
You make it sound as though you expect this to happen once a week. It won’t. Backup is good enough. That kind of “time saved” once every year or two isn’t worth it.
SATA vs. FIREWIRE
Again, it’s the year 2008 (almost). Why would you want FireWire? Apple is being so stubborn, pretending that eSATA does not exist, because it has so much invested in its FW technology. But even Apple will be forced to come around in its next models.
While we’re talking about it, the claimed 80MB/sec for the Enhance T4 CR probably refers to the FireWire and USB interfaces, not to the SATA.
ENCLOSURE SHARING
You write, “I also wanted to use the same RAID box with a Macbook Pro. So how would two Macs share the same RAID box?
What kind of sharing do you mean? If you mean that you and your partner can access the same video simultaneously in adjoining rooms, then you need FibreChannel. But, as Shane points out, “...a Fibrechannel setup, then an XServe Server...is NOT cheap.”
As Ken writes, “You can get a eSata card for your G5 and an ExpressCard for your MBP and share the box. With this you could get a Kona or Blackmagic card and capture your footage as DVCProHD and also have a way to monitor your HDV footage.”
Amen.
VENDORS
G-SPEED is reliable, with good support. Caldigit has a platinum reputation. Of course, there are MaxxDigital, Sonnet and Dulce Systems.
Enhance is the new kid on the block, and they are significantly less expensive with, in my experience so far, excellent build quality and quick (human) response. They manufacture in Taiwan, but they’re headquartered in -- and ship out of -- Lower California. So they don’t talk to you in Taiwanese as the cheap enclosure sites do.
So there.
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