computer parts in china

[euphonius]

Hilarious. I've heard similar stories. We like to think of computers as marvels of precision and accuracy, but at the atomic level they must look as messy as the rest of the world.

i'm going to run out to Qujiang Lu today to see what I can find.

[euphonius]

Wow, what a difference doubling your RAM can make! I took my mac out with me and went ahead and tried the 1333MHz chips. Kaboom -- we're flying! Even booting was way faster. My system tells me I'm at 8gb and running at 1333MHz. Beat that! Went with a brand called Kingston, which is everywhere here in Shanghai. No one seems to know where it's from, but chips say "assembled in China". 295 rmb each, or US$90.

All's well! Thanks all.

[td_ref]

Wow, what a difference doubling your RAM can make! I took my mac out with me and went ahead and tried the 1333MHz chips. Kaboom -- we're flying! Even booting was way faster. My system tells me I'm at 8gb and running at 1333MHz. Beat that! Went with a brand called Kingston, which is everywhere here in Shanghai. No one seems to know where it's from, but chips say "assembled in China". 295 rmb each, or US$90.
All's well! Thanks all.

well, I didn't realise 8g vs 4g can make that much difference, upgrade from already sufficient amount suppose make less difference, or you must having 10+ safari windows open simultaneously while several other memory-hog application remains at background.
Now how much left free now? 4g?

[euphonius]

well, I didn't realise 8g vs 4g can make that much difference, upgrade from already sufficient amount suppose make less difference, or you must having 10+ safari windows open simultaneously while several other memory-hog application remains at background.
Now how much left free now? 4g?

Like a breath of fresh air. Everything is better. Yes, I tend to have a lot of tabs and windows open. And multiple browsers. And Aperture with 15,000 pictures. And music. And mail with 30,000 items in my inbox. Not pretty.

In fact, one reason for wanting more RAM was to run a neat little utility called Remove Duplicates in a package of mac mail utilities called Mail Scripts. It zaps redundant emails, of which I have thousands and thousands.

So like I said, everything is better today.

Everything except gmail. Gmail is sucking big time today. Anyone besides TD and me having trouble here inside the GFW?

cheers

[humanbeing]

...Went with a brand called Kingston

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Technology The ONLY trustable King???

[euphonius]

Yes that's the one. Guess this is not a fly-by-night 皮包公司！

I've been using it for an hour, and no meltdown yet...

[CantDecide]

Yeah, Kingston is a good brand, pretty much middle of the road in terms of reputation and cost. They seem to make a few quality lines and different price points, but assuming its genuine you shouldn't have any problems.

I don't use GMail, but I definitely had some oddities with Maps and other G-Apps today.

[humanbeing]

... but assuming its genuine ...

There's many shop warranty ONLY Kingston that are from OEM market/ parallel imported , so i'm don't recommended it in my 1st post. Also too many King??? brand TiC

[CantDecide]

Since your Mac is recognizing and using the memory at 1333, you are getting a 25% speed bump over 1066, so even with just 4gb of ram you should notice a performance improvement.

[euphonius]

Since your Mac is recognizing and using the memory at 1333, you are getting a 25% speed bump over 1066, so even with just 4gb of ram you should notice a performance improvement.

All this is above my pay grade, but About This Mac shows 8gb at 1333MHz. I just talked to Kingston tech support in Beijing, and they said what normally happens is, as you noted, the CPU will accept the 1333MHz RAM but knock the clock speed down to 1066. Whatever. It's really made a big difference. Thanks for your advice and support.

cheers