Is it worth it to put in 2 gigs of ram?

Im going to buy a mac book pro and I am going to put 2 gigs of ram and 100 gig of hardrive. Is it worth it

THE single most effective way to increase performance without breaking the piggy bank is to max out the memory of your system. The next best thing is to get a faster hard drive (even if it's only 1GB). Lastly, I would consider the processor. I say this with the MBP in mind of course. I myself got all of the whistles and buttons (2.16GHz,7200RPM,2GB RAM) because it is the first time EVER that you can get a faster portable than an iMac, and that is saying loads about this portable! What can I say, I'm a Mac whore. I could have easily settled for the 2GHz model with normal hardrive, but I will never compromise on the memory. Also, I would normally have gotten the memory elsewhere, except for the fact that I wanted 2 high quality sticks that have been PROPERLY matched, and apple always gets this right. So young fellow, I would suggest you max out the RAM if nothing more. You will get the most out of your laptop and the sooner, the better.

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    I seem to be getting slightly better query times on the paravirtualized guest, and it might be worth the effort put into making a paravirtualized guest run, but I'm now worried that paravirtualized guests will be flakey and unstable.
    Anybody else run into these kinds of issues with paravirtualization?
    The fully-virtualized guests seem to be rock-solid and very straightforward to build, configure and run.
    Is sticking with fully virtualized guests the safer choice?
    My VM Server is a brand new HP Proliant DL370 with dual quad-core 2.9GHz Nehalem-core Xeons and 64GB ram, and does seem to have ample horsepower to get the speed I need with fully-virtualized guests running my database and apps.

    I haven't heard of anyone running into the issues you mention with paravirt guests. We have extensively tested it in-house, and have also provided pre-built templates for paravirt database guests. Maybe you could give one of those a try, and see if they're more stable. There is a small chance that a guest OS configuration issue is causing the instability.

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