You Can Never Have Too Much RAM!
You get a lot of bang for your buck when you upgrade your Mac’s RAM. Get an additional 2GB or 4GB; you can never have too much. Your Mac will run better with at least 4GB of RAM, which will cost you under $100 in most cases and can be installed by anyone. Yes, anyone — the instructions are right there in your User Guide booklet, or you can find them at the Apple Technical Support pages (www.apple.com/support
; search for RAM upgrade and your Mac model).
Unless, that is, you own a MacBook Air. The MacBook Air is exceedingly difficult to open, and Apple frowns upon users opening their MacBook Air. You might want to opt for the services of an authorized, certified Mac cracker-opener to perform your MacBook Air RAM upgrade. Or not.
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