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Hey, I'm thinking about buying a mac laptop and if i did i would get a ram upgrade, I was browsing through some on eBay and was just wondering if i could just buy a ordinary 4gb ram or would have to have a specific one because of it being ram, because normal ones just cost around £35 but some "apple mac pro... ram" cost £85 odd please reply a.s.a.p

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There isn't any 'generic' RAM types, as you seem to be implying. Each motherboard requires a specific type of RAM; you can't mix and match. The type that MacBooks and MacBook Pros use is SO-DIMM 667 Mhz PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM. The manufacturer of the RAM shouldn't affect its compatibility however, and so you can get relatively cheap third-party RAM for the MacBook.

I got my RAM off of NewEgg:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16820231069

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