Friday, September 10, 2010

Memory Upgrade

So my 512 MB of RAM is not going to cut it. Thanks to some advice from my uncle, I found a website with cheap and reliable RAM for sale. First, here are a few details about my laptop:
  •   Model Name: MacBook
  •   Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
  •   Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
  •   Processor Speed: 1.83 GHz
  •   Number Of Processors: 1
  •   Total Number Of Cores: 2
  •   L2 Cache: 2 MB
  •   Memory: 512 MB
  •   Bus Speed: 667 MHz

And here are the details on the RAM I purchased:
4.0GB (2GB + 2GB Module Set) Upgrade kit for Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Mini 2.0GHz, 2.1GHz, 2.2GHz, 2.4GHz, 2.5GHz, 2.6GHz, & 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo Models. PC5300 DDR2 667MHz 200 Pin. New, Lifetime Advance Replacement Warranty.

I bought the RAM here: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/53IM2DDR4GBK/

The RAM was $96.98 with shipping and will hopefully be here soon. When I get the RAM I'll try to install it myself and then hopefully install Snow Leopard and do things the Apple way.

A side note for the people that aren't too great with computers: RAM stands for Random-Access Memory. In a nut shell, RAM is where your computer stores information that can be randomly accessed as opposed to information stored on discs where the time to access information depends on the location of the previous memory accessed. 512 MB of RAM basically means 512 megabytes of information can be stored and randomly accessed. A computer operating system intelligently stores the most recent and relevant information in this RAM so that your computer can run faster. For example, imagine you have thousands of books stored in your shed and a small bookshelf that is easily accessible in your house. The books you read more often you will keep in your bookshelf so you don't have to go outside to the shed every time you want a book. Getting a book from this shelf is much quicker then going out to the shed and searching through thousands of books. This is similar to the way your computer accesses information. The RAM is like the book shelf and your hard drive is like the shed. The hard drive can store hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes of information but it typically takes longer to access than the few gigabytes of RAM storing the most relevant information. Basically, More RAM = Faster computer.

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