[macvoiceover] Re: Upgrading Ram.

  • From: Justin Mann <w9fyi@xxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:56:40 -0700

Travis,
I sit corrected.  Thanks for enlightening me on this.  I was not aware.  
On Mar 20, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:

> 
> On Mar 20, 2011, at 11:20 PM, Justin Mann wrote:
> 
> 
>> The one draw back to using a mac is that you just can't pop the thing open 
>> and plop a dim in to it.
> 
> Sure you can.
> On the early macbooks (not the unibody ones) it's actually quite easy, remove 
> battery, remove 2 ror 3 screws, remove plastic cover, and poof, instant 
> memory upgrade, a 5 minute job.
> On the other hand, I recently upgraded memory in my mac mini, and that wasn't 
> so easy. <shrug>
> But, if your mac is under warantee, then you don't want to do anything 
> yourself to upgrade the machine, because it voids the warantee.  So, it's 
> kind of a moot point until your machine is out of warantee, unless you really 
> don't intend to bother with purchasing one.
> Overall, the warantee is a good idea, and it really is easier to let the 
> techs do the upgrades.  The only problem is, you gotta pay apple prices, 
> which often times are 2-3 times the going market rate for parts such as 
> memory and dvd drives, so it's entirely up to you.  Can you upgrade your own 
> macs, yes, you can, but I'd wait until the warantee expires before performing 
> any upgrades of your own, since apple really frowns on that kind of behavior.
> 
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