<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">YEs, DDR RAm is available for around $96 for 4GB. Well worth the cost. VMs really benefit from the extra "space"<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Adam Barbary</div><div>Viewbank College</div><div><br><div><div>On 31/07/2008, at 3:12 PM, Ros Meadows wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000066"> <font face="Calibri">Sorry for the cross posts but I know that this topic was discussed on these three lists.<br> <br> <big><big>To upgrade RAM in your brand new macbook</big></big><br> <br> If you want to upgrade to 2GB RAM (not sure if it takes 4GB) it is really easy. You can use normal DDR2 RAM (no you do not need APPLE RAM), and here is a video which shows how to do it! <br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryhaaFo5kbo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryhaaFo5kbo</a><br> <br> You will need a very small phillips head screwdriver to do it. If I can do it anyone can!!<br> <br> The result - it will fly off your desk and give you plenty of head room if you intend to use Parallels or any other virtualisation to run other operating systems from WITHIN the MacOS<br> <br> Cheers<br> Ros<br> </font><br> Anton Yoxon wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:45AA48D1-7623-43A1-A5AC-82777D057404@hillcrest.vic.edu.au" type="cite">I got a macbook pro and its great <div><br> </div> <div>Anton<br> <div> <div>On 31/07/2008, at 2:17 PM, Andrew Grimshaw wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div><font face="Arial">hi</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial">our macs arrived today! also (i aplogise for providing bad info - i blame my SNR, oil prices and the previous government)</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial">still, today is one day later than DEECD's purported deadline for return of old macbooks</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial">andrew grimshaw</font></div> <div><font face="Arial">colac sec college</font></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">----- Original Message -----</div> <div style="background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" title="oz.sutton@gmail.com" href="mailto:oz.sutton@gmail.com">Colin SUTTON</a></div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" title="itapps@edulists.com.au" href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au">itapps@edulists.com.au</a></div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:00 PM</div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Year 12 IT Apps] My Mac Notebook arrived!</div> <div><br> </div> <div dir="ltr"><p>Hi all<br clear="all"> </p><p>I think it was this list that said there maybe a 6 week wait for the DEET's MAC notebooks.</p><p>Mine arrived in the school today - as did a number of others. 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