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:whistle: Very simple Leopard Desktop, good to calm the mind and nerves...

Before anyone asks about the memory, I wanted to see if it was possible to read that much, no, I don't know if it's addressing it and no you can't have the chips after I'm done with them. :p

Its that a macbook pro?

If the system its reading that much its adressing it but only the 64-bit compiled apps will detect all of it. Fortunately the core can manage it so its still more efficient.

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Its that a macbook pro?

If the system its reading that much its adressing it but only the 64-bit compiled apps will detect all of it. Fortunately the core can manage it so its still more efficient.

Yes, this is my work work MacBook Pro. My Work MBP took a swan-dive today, still enough to make a girl tear up. :(

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Yes, this is my work work MacBook Pro. My Work MBP took a swan-dive today, still enough to make a girl tear up. :(

Sad to hear that :(

This gives me hope then. I have 4gb installed and sometimes its not enough since I work with scanned film and each photo can be as large as 1gb.

It would be great to have an 8gb RAM photography/film editing mobile machine.

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Sad to hear that :(

This gives me hope then. I have 4gb installed and sometimes its not enough since I work with scanned film and each photo can be as large as 1gb.

It would be great to have an 8gb RAM photography/film editing mobile machine.

Ya, it hurt me pretty bad to see it dead and bleeding. Hard Drive seems fine though, reads in an external bay just fine so I lucked out there. (Yes, I have data that isn't backed up...yes I know about Time Machine....yes I have an external drive I just haven't gotten around to it. ;))

The biggest issue with breaching 4GB of RAM is of course the price and acquisition of the chips. You pretty much have to go straight to a vendor to get a SO-DIMM of this size and the cost is unbelievably high. I don't expect to see it anytime soon in Apple, or anyone else's for that matter, lineup.

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The biggest issue with breaching 4GB of RAM is of course the price and acquisition of the chips. You pretty much have to go straight to a vendor to get a SO-DIMM of this size and the cost is unbelievably high. I don't expect to see it anytime soon in Apple, or anyone else's for that matter, lineup.

I would still see it as an investment, not an expense.

Its just the new line of macbook pros that can handle that much ram? Because I have a Core 2 Duo at 2.2ghz version

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I would still see it as an investment, not an expense.

Its just the new line of macbook pros that can handle that much ram? Because I have a Core 2 Duo at 2.2ghz version

For what it's worth I put those same SO-DIMMS in my 2.4 current gen and it never would display the amount of memory in About This Mac, however the machine appeared to operate normally.

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Weird, that space was blank?

Still, the fact that the machine booted up and the os loaded and worked suggest that the machine was indeed using the ram. Maybe (most probably) its an os problem so I can only hope that the 10.5.3 update resolves this.

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Weird, that space was blank?

Still, the fact that the machine booted up and the os loaded and worked suggest that the machine was indeed using the ram. Maybe (most probably) its an os problem so I can only hope that the 10.5.3 update resolves this.

10.5.3 was running on that MacBook Pro also so I'm not sure what the difference was, the field was just empty as so was the processor field, almost like an overflow caused it to not be able to display the data. It's one of those things that could be cosmetic because who ever expected someone to get their hands on 4GB chips. ;)

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10.5.3 was running on that MacBook Pro also so I'm not sure what the difference was, the field was just empty as so was the processor field, almost like an overflow caused it to not be able to display the data. It's one of those things that could be cosmetic because who ever expected someone to get their hands on 4GB chips. ;)

Just curiosity and to stop this thread hijack, how much its each chip? :p

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