Expensive 2 GB modules required for maximum RAM, cannot be matched Core 2 Duo (Late-2006) MacBook Pros can be expanded to 3 GB of memory, unlike their predecessors (Early-2006, Core Duo MacBook Pros) ...

I've been ranting here for a *long* time about the 2 GB RAM crippling on Apple MacBooks, so I won't continue it.<BR><BR>With the 2nd gen Core 2 Duo MBP supporting 3 GB RAM, I was curious to see ...

If you want a low-cost iMac to have around the house for everyday use (with iLife and some higher-end applications), the 1.83GHz iMac is a nice system for the price (even factoring in a RAM upgrade ...

Yesterday, we gave your our impressions of the new iMac Core Duo. In the article, we mentioned that we desperately needed to upgrade from the stock 512 MB RAM the system ships with, up to 2 GB because ...

Core Duo and Core Solo chips, on the other hand, were only used in the first-generation Intel Macs (MacBook/MacBook Pro, iMac and Mac mini), and were not used at all after 2006. Even the low-power ...

As you can see from the SiSoft2007 memory results each time the Core 2 Duo drops ~270MHz, roughly 50~80MB/s of memory bandwidth is lost. This is not a lot and should not really hurt the lower Core 2 ...

Many of us were excited by Apple's switch to Intel Core Duo processors, and even more of us were surprised when Intel bumped its mobility chip up to the new Core 2 Duo in the months that followed.