On Feb 17, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > Memory guidelines from Apple at the time of purchase seem to have more to do > with the capacity of memory modules at the time of system build. I can not > recall Apple ever claiming a memory capacity in a system spec greater then > stuffing the largest memory sticks available at the time or press into all > available slots, other then when they switched to 64bit and advertised > theoretical limits. > > I've found it very safe and rewarding to go with the guidance of memory > suppliers especially suppliers that sell a lot of memory for Mac systems. > > Check out: > > http://www.macsales.com > > Call them on the phone and ask them if your system is known to be stable with > the 4GB kit. > > http://www.crucial.com/index.aspx > > Many of these memory suppliers will certify that the memory is compatible. > > As far as overtaxing, running out of memory and swapping to disk could be > considered one of the more "taxing" events if it is occurring regularly.
I am running 4GB in my macbook fine, but I am wasting 1GB, but I also wanted the memory parity, so I was willing to throw that money away so to speak: http://eshop.macsales.com/Descriptions/specs/Framework.cfm?page=imaclate06.html You have to find the excerpt that pertains to your model, but here is a sample: Two SODIMM slots support up to 2GB*(OWC NOTE: this model can actually support 3 GB. If 4GB is put it, OSX 10.5 will recognize it as 4GB, but will still only address 3GB) Not sure how that plays with 10.6, my about box shows 4GB, but I have never been able to use more than 3GB on this MacBook2,1 All in all, for the cost, a good investment though. -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
