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sequoias

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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)
 
I have 8 gigs RAM in my macbookpro. I think I can safely recommend the upgrade. :D I ordered it with that much from Apple, though, didn't personally upgrade it.
 
DeafBadger said:
I have 8 gigs RAM in my macbookpro. I think I can safely recommend the upgrade. :D I ordered it with that much from Apple, though, didn't personally upgrade it.
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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
 
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.
 
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
 
yea I just bought 8GB ram for my MacBook Pro. $40. sweet deal.
 
my computer ram is ok but my camera seems to have stopped working, what do i do?
 
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.
 
stephy said:
my computer ram is ok but my camera seems to have stopped working, what do i do?
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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"?
 
Jiro said:
yea I just bought 8GB ram for my MacBook Pro. $40. sweet deal.
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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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Jiro, yea I paid 37.49 from Amazon.com.

DHB, yup figured 8 gb is a better idea.

Vacationguy, mines a 64 bit OS.
 
You sucks! I got it for about 75 dollars, that was 6 months ago.

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

sequoias said:
Yeah, that's still not too bad. It's better than paying $1,000 for 32 MB upgrade back in the 90's. :lol:
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diehardbiker said:
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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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.
 
Hard drive isn't common in early days of PC and yeah that Atari!

sequoias said:
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.
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sequoias said:
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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.
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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.
 
VacationGuy234 said:
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.
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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.
 
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