MacBook Pro. 4GB to 8GB Upgrade.

MacBook Pro. 4GB to 8GB.

1. Introduction
2. "Cost-Benefit Analysis"
3. Features
   1. Boot Time: Is it affected by the upgrade?
   2. Applications
4. Conclusion

1. Introduction

Greetings, today I am going to discuss the positive and negatives aspects about the

upgrade that many are tempted to perform, before during and after the purchase of an Apple

Personal Computer i.e. MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac and so on.

I am going to use my first and recently bought MacBook Pro as a "guinea pig" today

by performing and reviewing the upgrade from 4GB of Random-Access Memory (RAM) to 8GB.

I hope you all enjoy it and that this review is useful to you as a guide to aid your decision

to upgrade or not.

Well let's get started shall we?

2. "Cost-Benefit Analysis"

We all know how expensive Apple Computers are for the vast majority of the population,

however I am sure if you are here you do appreciate, like me, the reasons why such cost,

but this is another discussion. Let me focus.

The first option we have right off the bat is to do the upgrade as we purchase the machine,

which is offered to you when you order online, through the phone or buy it directly from an

Apple Store.

I did consider upgrading directly with Apple for the obvious reasons but unfortunately

I wasn't able to this time, the £160.00* upgrade price was a little too high for me, not overpriced,

just a little too high for me. (* or $200.00 USD)

So here is what I have done: I have acquired the part from a third part company which

offered the so called upgrade for £59.99. So I decided to give it a go, before you ask my

warranty will not be voided as RAM and any user replacable parts DO NOT void your

equipment warranty as stated by Apple®.

As you can see the specifications of the product match perfectly what is already inside

a MacBook Pro. But obviously still won't be as good as the 8GB from Apple.

Now to the benefits. rest assured that this upgrade will not be noticed by all of you, and

what I mean by that is: If you only use your Mac for browsing the web or office suites, you do

not need this upgrade, however if you do heavy video or image processing or anything that

requires that little bit extra, you will notice the difference in performance baring in mind that

this model of MacBook Pro has no dedicated graphics card therefore upgrading is a fantastic

way to avoid "paging" and I think for 60 bucks that is a bargain.

3. Features

RAM is constantly used by the system, obviously, serving as temporary storage and

working space for the operating system and its applications.

You may or may not know that most computers use something called "virtual memory"

is a method that consists of a portion of the system's hard drive being set aside for use as

a paging file that extends ram capacity. I.e. 4GB of RAM + 1GB of Paging file gives a system

a total of 5GB of memory available. Obviously upgrading from 4GB to 8GB will enable you to

have more memory without "sacrificing" a part of your hard drive.

RAM is used in numerous others ways on a computer.

3.1 Boot Time: Is it affected by the upgrade?

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3.2 Applications

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4.0 Conclusion

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