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Early 2008 MacBook Pro will run 6 GB of RAM

personalJeremy AllenMacBook Pro, technologyComment

image of the "about this Mac" stats that shows 6 gigabytes of RAM installed I just put 6 GB of RAM in my early 2008 MacBook Pro and am experiencing a significant performance boost. The Apple website says my Mac should hold a maximum of 4 GB of RAM.

The image above shows that my Mac is now running with 6 GB of RAM. Previously I was running two 2 GB sticks. I just removed one of them and installed this 4 GB stick made by Crucial, for a new total of six.

My Adobe Lightroom 4 catalog now opens at least twice as fast as previously. The catalog is approximately 700 MB in size and has a little over 48,000 images in it. The previews file is a little over 15 GB. This app is the main reason I wanted to stuff more than 4 GB of RAM into this Mac. It was a bit sluggish before. Now it opens briskly and browses through images much more smoothly.

So, if you are stuck with an old MacBook Pro, like me, there are a few things you can do to speed it up. You can start by giving your hard drive a check up and repair through Apple's disk utility app. If you are using the original 5400 RPM drive, you can replace it with a 7200 RPM drive. You can even defrag your hard drive if you want. I used iDefrag, and you can read about it here. Then put 6 GB of RAM into your Mac. And don't forget to backup your drive each step of the way so you can recover if something goes wrong.

I'll report back if I run into any problems.

 

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A beginner's beginning guide to specialty coffee

Specialty coffee is not a type, kind, or variety of coffee plant. To me, specialty coffee is a landscape of connected and interdependent people and processes that is focused on quality not quantity of the coffee experience. From farmers, their families, their seasonal workers, quality control processes, the wet and dry milling stations, storage, exporters, importers, commercial and home roasters, cafe owners, baristas, organizations such as SCAA, ACE, and WCR, trainers and educators, universities, sensory scientists, botanists and agronomists, sustainability initiatives, climate scientists, software coders and app developers, equipment and device manufacturers, private and public investors, supply chain and logistics experts, commodities traders, local and national governments, cultural innovators, and more.

When a drop of specialty coffee hits your tongue, you are tasting your connection to the fortunes and misfortunes of everyone in this landscape.

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A beginner's beginning guide to specialty coffee