This week, I upgraded my MacBook Pro to 4 GB RAM. Two main reasons for doing that. First, I need to work on Windows with VMWare Fusion and I find that it could be painful with 2 GB. It works, but it does slow down the machine. The second reason was the price. Memory became incredibly cheep. The memory itself was about $110 (bought on crucial.com, in Israel you can get it directly through crg.co.il). Buying a $2500 laptop and skimping on a $100 sounds plain stupid.
I got the memory installed and started working. I had 2-3 king-sized instances of Eclipse running along with all my other applications including Firefox with over 20 tabs, Mail, Calendar, Skype, Adium, OmniFocus, OmniOutliner, etc. I had VMWare Fusion running with Windows Vista. I had 0 "Page Outs". Again, 0. Nada. No swap. The machine was running smoother than ever. Those of you who don't understand what the big fuss is about, are either not familiar with the term "Page Outs" or not using Windows. On Windows, no matter how much memory you have, you're going to swap and it will slow you down.
I just wish I will never have to go back.
