sequoias

Hey peeps...

I'm curious, have some of you done memory upgrade on your computer? I have done it several times. I recently ordered Kingston 8 GB DDR3 1066 MHz RAM upgrade for my Mac Mini and should arrive later this week. I can't wait to see the results after being choked on 2 GB of RAM on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

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DeafBadger

I have 8 gigs RAM in my macbookpro. I think I can safely recommend the upgrade. I ordered it with that much from Apple, though, didn't personally upgrade it.

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sequoias

Ahhh cool! 8 GB is a lot of memory for a home computer, alto the OS minimum usually is 2 GB today. It's a big jump from only less than 5 MB in Mac OS 7.0

DeafBadger

Well, to be fair, I wanted the upgrade so I could more easily run all the stuff for my IT classes. If I wasn't buying it to use in my IT classes, I probably would have gone with the standard 4 gigs. But 8 gigs is good. It'll help keep the computer operational longer.

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diehardbiker

I already done that with my Mini MAC and tell you this the major improvements are seriously right there! Worth every penny that you bought it, You made the right choice 8GB is awesome. I wouldn't recommend upgrade just to 4GB

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Jiro

yea I just bought 8GB ram for my MacBook Pro. $40. sweet deal.

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stephy

my computer ram is ok but my camera seems to have stopped working, what do i do?

VacationGuy234

If you don't have a 64 bit OS, you can't use anymore than 4GB for a 32 bit system. Also, for a notebook you don't want to just throw in any type of ram because the ram type has to be correct and the power consumption will be off.

Changing the ram is the easy part.

VacationGuy234

What type of camera is it? Is it an internal or external?

SneakerNet

If you are talking about webcam, internal or external, Your device driver for webcam may be messed up. Or it could be your application, like Tango, Skype and such, may selected wrong device. Sometime it may require to check through few steps to see what's wrong with it.

Now if you are talking about "Camera", the Snapshot, Canon SLR or whatever, then it may have issues with communicating between Camera and your desktop/laptop via USB port?

So what you are asking is pretty general, so can you be more specific of what you mean by "camera not working"?

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SneakerNet

Man.... it's amazing, it feel like yesterday that I been using 256 KB of ram and to upgrade it to 512 KB ram will cost me 1 grand!

I still have a laptop that only have 512 Kb ram, with 256 color video, 10 MB HD, running on Windows 386... and have many DOS applications. Still alive!

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sequoias

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Jiro, yea I paid 37.49 from Amazon.com.

DHB, yup figured 8 gb is a better idea.

Vacationguy, mines a 64 bit OS.

diehardbiker

You sucks! I got it for about 75 dollars, that was 6 months ago.

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sequoias

Yeah, that's still not too bad. It's better than paying $1,000 for 32 MB upgrade back in the 90's.

diehardbiker

Yup, that is true I remember these prices on earliest personal computer. No one can afford 10MB hard drive. It cost $2k for one.

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"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson (1778)

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sequoias

Yeah, especially the 10 MB hard drive for a Atari 1040ST was $500 in the late 80's. I didn't have a hard drive in it and used 720k floppies, made lot of noise.

diehardbiker

Hard drive isn't common in early days of PC and yeah that Atari!

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"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny."
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sequoias

Yeah, pretty much.

VacationGuy234

That's cool, you are fully up to speed. I have to build a whole new system for my desktop because the dell I bought only takes 4GB and if I move to windows7 on it I can't get any more power from it.

What bothers me now is the new tablets, you can't update the system ram in them at all.

sequoias

Yeah, it's a Mac Mini late 2009 with 2.26 GHz Intel Duo 2 Core. It's on par with the current technology, for now.

Of course, same with smart phones. My Samsung Galaxy S kinda chokes with only 512 MB of RAM on board, I can't upgrade it. It depends on what app I'm running and how many at once.

DeafBadger

First computer was Apple IIe.

Next was a IBM 286 from surplus property. MS-DOS, baby!

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DeafBadger

Yeah, I'm bothered by the closed design off the tablets, too...

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AJWSmith

Can anyone tell me if software on the Mac OS uses the extra RAM? I installed 8GB memory at the same time I got the 64 bit Vista, but the extra RAM is never used. I'm told it's not Microsoft fault, but rather the software companies don't want to commit to using the extra RAM and lose compatability with older 32 bit OSes. Given that Apple have more control over how their OS is used, I wonder if they're able to get software companies to use the 64 bit functionality?

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Grummer

AJW, No idea

and to the OP, sequoias, i thought you were talking about Tunnel Rams LOL

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diehardbiker

Its like trying to compare apple with Orange. Apple and PC is different platform, they both run different.

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"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson (1778)

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VacationGuy234

Regardless of OS, if you have a 64 bit machine, but are running a 32 bit OS you will not use over 4 GB of ram. To solve the problem you have to install the 64 bit version of the OS. Yes, Mac will use it as well as long as you have the right OS and you won't lose compatibility as 64 bit can run 32 bit applications.

To see how much ram you are using or what OS

for MAC:
How to tell if you’re running the 32 bit or 64 bit kernel in Mac OS X Snow Leopard

for windows:
How to determine whether a computer is running a 32-bit version or 64-bit version of the Windows operating system

Grummer

wow i just remembered i used to do machine code on 8 bits processors...64 is an incredible achievement of technology, i wonder if there's any 128 bit or 256 bit processors in existence? and vacation guy is right...its the OS's ability its inherient set up to operate within the 32bit environment and thus its restricted to 4GB ram access...

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Grummer

64 bit - When are we going 128-bit? How it will be? What gets better? - Super User

guess 64 bit is here to stay for a long while...\only we'd start seeing Straight 8 , V-8, straight 16 processors

or AMD will bring out Rotary CPUs with there triple gones 3x triples...lol

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diehardbiker

Agreed, I don't think we are seeing 128 bits for a long time. I think what we are seeing is multiple core processors. 64 bits is alot information.

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"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson (1778)

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