Macbook RAM 1.5GB - downside thereof?

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I currently have 2 x 1 gb ram in my macbook. I am seriously considering getting an iMac to replace my windows PC and want to use one of the 1gb sticks in the Macbook to up the iMac's mem to 2gb. I still have the original 2x 512mb sodimms that came out of my Macbook when I upped the memory.
What performance degradation will i have if I use 1 x 1gb and 1 x 512 mb sodimms in the macbook.
I do not use parallels on the macbook anymore so the loss of 2gb on the macbook will not be such a big deal.
 
Will you take much of a hit wrt video memory?
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but the Macbooks work a lot faster with a pair of exactly the same ram chips rather than the two being separate sizes.
 
The thing is that RAM is so cheap nowadays (I saw 1GB at Cyberdyne for under R300) that it doesn't really make sense not to buy a bit more. Especially if you are already coughiing up for an iMac.
 
Rewind said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but the Macbooks work a lot faster with a pair of exactly the same ram chips rather than the two being separate sizes.
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Yes that is correct hence my question but I hear what you say re the cost of ram so might as well for out the extra for another 1 gig. Luckly the iMac has a 1 gig mem installed so its not a question of having to replace 2 memory sodimms.
 
adsl3g said:
Yes that is correct hence my question but I hear what you say re the cost of ram so might as well for out the extra for another 1 gig. Luckly the iMac has a 1 gig mem installed so its not a question of having to replace 2 memory sodimms.
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iirc then you will see an increase for heavy ram apps like photoshop but only if you have an identical pair.
 
bwana said:
iirc then you will see an increase for heavy ram apps like photoshop but only if you have an identical pair.
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That is my understanding as well and Aperture will also suffer a bit. But I will probably move my Photo editing to the iMac then and only use the Macbook for viewing in Frontrow.

The only thing that held me back from moving totally to Mac was the ease with which I can clone a DVD with CloneDVD from Slysoft (gotta love that program). But then I realised I can run it in Windows via Bootcamp - Yaarrrhh come on bonus day..!

Still deciding on the 2ghz or the 2.4ghz - makes sense to go for the 2.4 since it has a better graphics card as well.
 
adsl3g said:
The only thing that held me back from moving totally to Mac was the ease with which I can clone a DVD with CloneDVD from Slysoft (gotta love that program). But then I realised I can run it in Windows via Bootcamp - Yaarrrhh come on bonus day..!
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These days all I do is rip and encode to h264 but Roxio's Popcorn is a pretty good solution for dvd reduction.
 
bwana said:
These days all I do is rip and encode to h264 but Roxio's Popcorn is a pretty good solution for dvd reduction.
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I tend to still stick the copies on blank DVD's as I don't have a media centre but a LG recordable DVD with 420 GIG HDD so media centre is out at this stage.
 
adsl3g said:
Yes that is correct hence my question but I hear what you say re the cost of ram so might as well for out the extra for another 1 gig. Luckly the iMac has a 1 gig mem installed so its not a question of having to replace 2 memory sodimms.
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Just check that the 1GB is 1 sodimm and not 2x512... like the macbooks are
 
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