Should I get my new MBP with 4 GB RAM direct from Apple?
I'm close to buying a new MBP.
I have read all these posts about freezes, particularly likely when using 4 GB RAM, reduced in frequency but not eliminated by Apple's system software upgrade.
I know folks have saved money buy purchasing a machine with 2GB of Apple RAM and then getting a 4GB kit from an external supplier.
But with this problem still kind of a concern, is it just easier to address with Applecare if one buys the 4GB from Apple?
The one flawless external supplier seems to be Kingston, but their 4GB kit for a late 2008 MBP is $170.
Thanks for the posts.
I think that with the particular history of these 15" Macbook pros, I ultimately decided that this was a situation where the Apple-provided 4GB might be worth it, at $135).
It's about $40-45 more than what a 4GB kit might cost at a number of suppliers (and of course, I don't get to take out and hold onto a couple extra 1GB's, which is always a benefit with buying after-market RAM), but it does make it easy to make any freezing-recurrences entirely an Applecare issue.
My current 15" Aluminum G4 PB is the one that had (and has recurrently had, despite 2 logic board replacements for free) bad RAM slots. I think that I might have saved a step and some time if I had Apple-installed RAM.
Without the particular history of RAM-related freezes with the new late 2008 15" MacBook Pro, however, I think one could easily justify just using an external supplier.
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