Need 4GB of ram for new (aluminium) macbook

[Playalistic]

Hi chaps,

I'm looking around for 4GB of RAM to upgrade a new aluminium macbook. The only one i've found so far (which also seems to be out of stock everywhere i've looked) is the kingston 4GB kit. Any suggestions which RAM I can use and where it is in stock please?

Also, I'm going to put a 7200rpm drive in, I've been thinking of the Seagate Momentus 7200.3 320GB drive, any suggestions on this? Not too bothered about power drain just looking for performance for running vista thru VMware fusion. Cheers!

[ash]

Try the Crucial website?

[jont]

this at crucial.com : 4GB kit (2GBx2), 204-pin SODIMM, DDR3 PC3-8500 upgrades for Apple MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (15-inch DDR3) MB470LL/A Laptop/Notebook, CT898331 from Crucial.com ??

Jon

[Playalistic]

Are these definitely compatible with the new aluminium macbook, not the MBP by the way.

[Playalistic]

From the manual:

Each memory slot can accept an SDRAM module that meets the following
specifications:

 Double Data Rate Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module (DDR3) format
 1.25 inch (3.18 cm)
 1 GB or 2 GB
 200-pin
 PC3-8500 DDR3 1066 MHz Type RAM

The sticks in the link were 204-pin so I guess these wouldn't be compatible.

[Playalistic]

Answering myself here but just run the memory profiler tool (had assumed before that it was a windows only thing) and it shows up the following:

Memory upgrades from Crucial.com - Determine My Memory Needs

As compatible. Happy times.

[jont]

Originally Posted by Playalistic

Are these definitely compatible with the new aluminium macbook, not the MBP by the way.

Apologies - didn't read post but you found the right place

Jon

[Playalistic]

I'm still slightly concerned though as the manual states 200-pin sodimms yet these are 204-pin. I'll call crucial anyway and confirm.

[Digitalize]

Trust Crucial, if it doesnt work you get a refund.

[LFC_SL]

You definitely need DDR3 ram with 204 pins

DDR2 ram is not compatible with the new aluminium macbook

[Playalistic]

Ordered yesterday at 4pm ish delivered today at 8.30am. All installed and working great now if anyone was interested. Crucial are outstanding!

Also replaced the hard disk with a 320gb seagate momentus 7200.3. All sorted!

[TechTez]

Originally Posted by Playalistic

Ordered yesterday at 4pm ish delivered today at 8.30am. All installed and working great now if anyone was interested. Crucial are outstanding!

Also replaced the hard disk with a 320gb seagate momentus 7200.3. All sorted!

Can you tell much diffrence in speed with the new HDD and RAM?

I just got myself a macbook last week, so far so good but Vista litreally kills mac when running in a virtual machine.

[Playalistic]

Originally Posted by TechTez

Can you tell much diffrence in speed with the new HDD and RAM?

I just got myself a macbook last week, so far so good but Vista litreally kills mac when running in a virtual machine.

Without a doubt. Especially with VM performance. It wasn't horrible before but not exactly screaming. After the HD upgrade and bumping the VM up to 2GB of allocated RAM everything is fine. Should tell you i'm running server 2008 though which is a little less frivolous than normal vista.

[TechTez]

Originally Posted by Playalistic

Without a doubt. Especially with VM performance. It wasn't horrible before but not exactly screaming. After the HD upgrade and bumping the VM up to 2GB of allocated RAM everything is fine. Should tell you i'm running server 2008 though which is a little less frivolous than normal vista.

I was using server 2008 too !

It was running horrible, it was able to run though, but it felt way to slow, need to find a way to let me edit my word documents and visual basic, currently trying 'crossover' if that fails looks like only way left is using bootcamp which i dont think supports server 2008 :-(

[Playalistic]

Are you using VMWare or Parallels? You can bootcamp with 2008 server, it's not officially supported but I know a few people who have this set up.