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Found an old 2012 macbook pro and I want to hook it up to the tv for youtube and movies. Wanted to upgrade the ram from the current 2x2gb to 8gb because I can barely load 2 tabs at a time, will it be much of a difference between a single 8gb or is it worth the extra money for 2x4gb?

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[-] rowinxavier@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

Basically no difference. You may get some small differences in synthetic performance benchmarks but for web browsing and video playing it should be negligible.

[-] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago

from the software perspective its just ram addresses from xyz to 123, so the CPU will be the factor

but the hardware will have a bus route (makes division of the full RAM address range) for quick access to the address that is the second chip which is the only thing that makes 2x4 just a touch faster then 1x8

basically two lane road to the full addresses vs a 1 lane road

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