MacBook Memory Upgrade

My memory upgrade arrived this morning. Installing it is pretty easy as per instructions that are out on the web. One thing I would say however is: make sure you really do have a teeny-weeny cross head screwdiver to hand as you'll get nowhere without it.

Having installed it I'm finding that I can have all of my normal working software fired up, plus NeoOffice in case I need to refer to something in a spreadsheet (I have a few where I keep information about the various sites I maintain), and I can still fire up GIMPShop without it starting to swap stuff to disk.

To be honest it all seems to fit into 1gb of memory so I guess I would have gotten away with upgrading to 1gb instead of maxing it out to 2gb. I reckon however that the extra will come in handy if/when I start mucking about with audio visual stuff. Another issue of course is that I had to remove the 512mb that came in the MacBook in order to install the upgrade and if I'd gone for 1gb I'd have had to removed that at a later date had I wanted to go up to 2gb. Thus I decided to go for the full 2gb but I'm still a bit miffed with Apple for shipping it with only 512mb. 512mb might be enough if you just want the thing for answering email and browsing the web but I anticipate that most people who buy a MacBook will want to do a little more with it than that, and given the number of fun toys on here, I can't really see how Apple could doubt that?