Want to have 2gb of ram which type of ram do i get?
I have a cd mbp 2.16ghz 15.4" with the 1gb of ram. i want to have 2 gb but dont want to order from apple to expensive. what is the ram that is already in the mbp oem. all i want to buy is 1gb of ram= dual channel to make 2x1gb and do i need to have the same company or can i go buy mushkin ram or w/e.
MBP CD 15.4" 2.16ghz Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1GB, 100GB 7200RPM
Depends, is your current gig 1x1gb or 2x512? If its the latter, than you'll need to buy 2 sticks instead of one.
OWC and NewEgg have the best prices although I give a higher recommendation to OWC for not only having good prices, but have mac-specific ram as well as impressive instructional videos on installing hardware. Check out http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/MacBook/DDR2/Upgrade for more information.
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What does your Activity Monitor tell you after an hour of normal use?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342?viewlocale=en_US
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http://guides.macrumors.com/UnderstandingIntel_MacRAM
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Also spending all that money for Windows (VirtualBox is free) and Office seems like almost a waste of effort if the machine is going to die suddenly.
MacBook Pro's last about 4-5 years.
To do what you want your going to have to upgrade OS X to 10.6, then either buy VMFusion or Parallels which they are now catering to 10.7 and 10.8 users, so it's slow on 10.6, or use the free VirtualBox which will run well on 10.6. Then buy a copy of Windows 7 as earlier Windows versions are not being sold, then Office 11 or whatever.
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You see your outdated really, and anything that can work is soon to be ignored etc.
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