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Old 08-01-2011, 01:47 PM   #168
sclitheroe
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Originally Posted by oilers_fan View Post
So what is this going to do for me? Should this basically just help the laptop run better and therefore maybe not need the fan as much because it's being more efficient?
No, the RAM upgrade thing started as a response to the poster suggesting that a 2 GHz Core2 was slow - it's not; with more RAM its still a viable machine. Any mac with 1 GB of RAM these days is going to be fairly slow. It's not unusual, for example, for Safari on Lion to chew up 500-700 megs of RAM.

Adding RAM won't reduce the fan noise though, that's either the SMC or dust build up. Could even be a failed heat pipe, but if it was that the fan would be screaming full tilt all the time I expect.
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