anybody with 4 gigs of ram in their macbook?

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Posted by i got big pants on Dec-18-2008 05:12:

anybody with 4 gigs of ram in their macbook?

contemplating picking up some more ram, but i have heard that unless your running massive vsts and what not in a daw...almost no real performance increase.

is this true?

im just djing using torq and everyday computer usage...so i could see how 4 gigs might help...but dont want to be blowing cash if its not going to make a huge difference.

Posted by DjWoody on Dec-18-2008 05:28:

I got 4 Gigs on my MacBook Pro and I love it!!! I got them for $30 at Frys! Can't go wrong with that.

Posted by i got big pants on Dec-18-2008 05:34:

did you see a noticeable performance increase though? even if it is marginal?

Posted by Zild on Dec-18-2008 06:00:

I'm running with 1gb right now with no problems in Logic or Traktor Scratch. I will probably upgrade to 4 soon since it is so cheap.

Posted by Ted Promo on Dec-18-2008 11:32:

Yes. There's a noticeable performance boost. Do it; it only cost me $90.

Posted by i got big pants on Dec-18-2008 14:35:

cool...i just wanted to confirm that it was going to be worth it

Posted by T-Soma on Dec-18-2008 15:04:

I don't know how you would do it on mac but see if you can monitor memory usage.
Its the best way to see if more RAM will help.

Posted by dainja on Dec-18-2008 17:42:

it's worth it if you run alot of VSTs

Posted by miamitranceman on Dec-18-2008 18:23:

quote:
Originally posted by DjWoody
I got 4 Gigs on my MacBook Pro and I love it!!! I got them for $30 at Frys! Can't go wrong with that.

+1

Same for me.

Check slickdeals.net for awesome ram deals. You should really pay no more than 30-40 max after rebate for 2x2gb sticks.

I run Torq and the extra RAM definitely helps when you're running multiple VSTs.

Posted by Rememberence_ on Dec-18-2008 18:31:

quote:
Originally posted by T-Soma
I don't know how you would do it on mac but see if you can monitor memory usage.
Its the best way to see if more RAM will help.

Open the command line and run either

`top`

or

`cat /proc/meminfo`

Posted by stan229 on Dec-19-2008 05:23:

4gb is the best thing i ever did for my mac

Posted by Zild on Dec-21-2008 21:40:

I'm running Logic, itunes, firefox, ical, and Traktor Scratch with two decks going with keylock on plus effects and I still have 8.60mb free ram out of 1024mb, but I'm still going to upgrade since it is so cheap.

Posted by limin_li on Dec-23-2008 05:26:

quote:
Originally posted by DjWoody
I got 4 Gigs on my MacBook Pro and I love it!!! I got them for $30 at Frys! Can't go wrong with that.

I got 2 gigs for my macbook pro. You got 4 for 30 bucks. Show me!!!

By the way, I just brought macbook pro less than a month ago, and there is no doubt that I am not going back to PC. Serato Scratch Live is meant run on Macbook Pro not PCs.