I didn't do an exhaustive online search for the absolute lowest price for 204-pin chips but OWC had matched-pair kits for $1099 and MAGO (Enterprise) had single 4GB Crucial modules in stock for $460 and matched pairs (kits) for slightly more than OWC.
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White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
I should have a new matte-screen 17” MBP in 2-3 weeks. I’ll give a report when it arrives. I’m going to start with 4GB and bump up to eight in a few months when the prices on the 4GB DIMMs drop, which they undoubtedly will.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
I bet you won't wait too long to upgrade your memory...after an hour or two of use with Photoshop, Aperture, Mail, Safari and MS Office open, I'm out of free memory on my 15" 4GB MBP and starting to see Page Outs and Swaps.
That's why I was looking at memory further up in the thread...my late-'08 MBP reportedly recognizes 6GB of memory even though Apple officially caps it at 4GB. I assume Apple marketing successfully argued for artificially capping the max RAM to provide another differentiation between the 15" and 17" models. Doesn't appear to be any hardware reason why the 15" won't function with 8GB of RAM so I guess it's a firmware limitation.
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White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Yesterday, I finally took delivery of my new matte-screen 17" MacBook Pro. I’ll try to make a little report next week after I’ve gotten to do some photo work with it.
I can confirm the following right off the bat:
subjectively, the screen looks great and has outstanding corner-to-corner consistency (for a laptop) and nicely saturated colors
the matte surface seems as good—if not better—than any recent Apple matte screen I've seen (and at this moment I can compare it against a room full of cinema displays and two other generations of MPBs)
the bezel treatment on the matte-screen MBP looks much better in person than in the photos from the Apple site; arguably it looks just as nice as the glossy unit
fit and finish seems exemplary all the way ’round
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Yesterday, I finally took delivery of my new matte-screen 17" MacBook Pro. I’ll try to make a little report next week after I’ve gotten to do some photo work with it.
I can confirm the following right off the bat:
subjectively, the screen looks great and has outstanding corner-to-corner consistency (for a laptop) and nicely saturated colors
the matte surface seems as good—if not better—than any recent Apple matte screen I've seen (and at this moment I can compare it against a room full of cinema displays and two other generations of MPBs)
the bezel treatment on the matte-screen MBP looks much better in person than in the photos from the Apple site; arguably it looks just as nice as the glossy unit
fit and finish seems exemplary all the way ’round
Congrats Martin. Stick 8GB in it (OWC is down to $697 for 2X4GB), along with a 160GB Intel X25-M (see my review), and it should fly.
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White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
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