I’ve recently decided to give my salary a hefty hit by upgrading my Macbook RAM to 2Gb, the most possible for the “small” range of Macbooks. Its initial memory, 512 Mb, is fine and dandy for basic MacOS use, but not for the digital tortures I sometimes put it into.
After a bit (a very small bit, to be frank) of research, I decided to give “cheap” a go and ordered a 2×1Gb kit from Omni Technologies.
All in all, I paid almost 170 euros for it, shipping included. Well, that wasn’t that bad, was it?
Eventhough their site is not the epitome of current design and it certainly doesn’t give the impression of a professional company, I’ve had a pleasant consumer experience so far.
Just 5 days ago (almost 4, to be precise) I’ve ordered the kit. Only some hours after my order, the Omni guys e-mailed me to inform me they needed some kind of identification copy to justify my credit card payment. I’ve replied with a scan of my I.D. almost instantly and the next day I had a FedEx tracking information e-mail in my inbox.
From there things got into the usual track… In two days, my memory traveled from Florida to Tenessee, then to Germany, France, Athens and eventually Heraklion.
I’ve installed the memory some hours ago, and so far it goes fine. I don’t know if the product I’ve purchased proves itself, but so far, my consumer experience is great.
I’ll definitely suggest Omni Technologies to everyone that wishes a hardware upgrade. And that’s what counts, no?
P.S. Let’s not omit here the dead-simple procedure needed to change the macbook RAM DIMMs without voiding the guarantee. Oh Apple.
3 comments on this post
cosmix #1
15.Feb.07
For all my Mac-related memory needs (and most PC needs) I tend to buy online from Crucial EU (www.crucial.com/eu). Good prices, guaranteed to work with your machine/motherboard/printer/whatever and unbelievably fast service: A year ago or so, I ordered some RAM very late on a Sunday night (i.e. 2300) and the sticks were here at 0800 Tuesday morning. I guess this is comparable to Omni’s performance.
In any case, you should’ve known Sugar! Mac OS X is the most liberal OS when it comes to memory caching/consumption. 2GB is fine, 1GB is okish, 512 is torture. Especially if your open applications extend beyond Mail.app, Safari.app and..well that. So I guess I should congratulate you for your new Mac; the difference in performance under load should be astounding. Just like getting a new machine
Tsevdos John #2
15.Feb.07
My Mac mini has 1GB of RAM and I need more!!! But I guess the ideal for the wanna-be Mac users or the ones that they simply want to update their machines,i s to wait for Leopard plus iLife 07 plus the new hardware releases (if any)… I’ll go for a Macbook…
Sugar #3
15.Feb.07
@ cosmix: You’re right, it’s like having a brand-new machine. Safari (and all the integrated apps) now launch lightning-fast and there’s a significant increase in all apps speed. I’m very, very pleased with the results so far.
@ John: The new Macbooks are great. Now that any potential hardware failure has been ruled out, I really don’t find a reason not to go for a Macbook. They’re treasures.