My macbook pro 13" 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB DDR3
what kind of 8GB RAM do you recommend to upgrade my laptop? is it samsung 2x8GB DDR3 or Kingstone 2x8GB DDR3?
or is there something better than those two?
Regards,
As long as you get the correct type/model of RAM for your particular computer, brand does not really matter.
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GB09 & iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Whoa!
Monday my old eMac 1 Ghz PPC died. Luckily today the new iMacs came out so I purchased a 24" iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3. 1 Terabyte internal.
When I opened GB09 it was so fast my eyebrows singed! OUCH!
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If I can't get the info to migrate then I guess I'll have to open the eMac and pull out the drive and do the connector route and see if it will function as an external drive.
And just to relate this part of the thread to GB, well, all my GB .band files are on that drive in that computer! It only had to last one more day! The horror..........
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