Memory Time!

One of the best ways to upgrade your Mac's performance is to add memory, second only to installing a fast SSD.  While SSD prices are still so high you can get a nose bleed just thinking about one, RAM prices are getting downright cheap.  When I bought my 17" MacBook Pro in August 2009, Apple wanted a whopping $1200 to upgrade the RAM from the standard 2 gigs to 8 gigs!  I chose the less painful ($200) 4 gig option instead, but I've always wished for the beefier configuration.  That's why I nearly wet myself when I went to macsales.com the other day and saw they were offering the 8 gig (2 X 4 GB) kit for my MBP for $110!  WTF? I checked and double-checked the price and specs to make sure it was the right RAM for my (5,2) MBP and sure enough it was.  I couldn't click the "Add to cart" button fast enough.  Just a year ago I bought a 4 gig (2 X 2 GB PC-8500 DDR3 @ 1066 MHz) for my new 27" iMac for the same price.  I remember checking the price of the 8 gig kit then and it was still more than I wanted to pay at $500.  In 12 months RAM prices have fallen by nearly a factor of 5!

If you've been thinking about adding more brain cells to your Mac, I'd suggest you visit the folks at Other World Computing (macsales.com) because you may be pleasantly surprised by how cheap RAM has gotten in the last year.