Re: Macbook Pro 8GB kit

I was having major speed issues, both on the OS X and Windows sides, with
VMWare Fusion running. After switching to 64-bit mode, the speed problems
pretty much went away. Thus why I suggested it.

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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
<ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Den 11/05/10 17.22, Mike skrev:

Wow, prices have dropped! I was starting to think I need to upgrade to
8GB as well.

Have you tried running in 64-bit mode? The system "feels" like it runs
faster (even when sitting at about 90% ram used.). Just hold down the
6 and 4 keys when booting. If you don't run into problems in that mode
after a while, you can use K64Enabler
(http://timesoftware.free.fr/k64enabler/) to always boot into 64-bit
mode or you can do it manually using the instructions here:

http://superuser.com/questions/138314/how-do-i-make-snow-leopard-boot-into-64-bit-by-default

There is no need for the OS X kernel to run in 64 bit, unless you have
ludicruous amounts of memory (and then it finds out itself). The only
effect on a consumer Mac is to use more memory for in-kernel data
structures as they get larger with 64-bit pointers.

But again, that may warrant getting that 8 Gb upgrade :D

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