Gig of RAM standard on MacBook Pro

Here's what I want to know. With those of us stuck with Macbook pro running that old legacy intel chip :-) can we bump to 3 gig's ?

The other change in the MacBook Pro is that they no longer offer a 7200 rpm hard drive put inside the laptops.

Yep, I think most people would agree it would be best if Apple actually shipped these babies with NO ram, then we could drop 3 GBs into them for a fraction of the cost.

Why is this a good thing? Apple excessively overcharges for memory. $575 for switching a 1GB stick to a 2GB one?? You can find a 2GB stick from a reputable manufacturer for ~$200. That's I wish they would let me get the 15" MBP with the better video card but the 1GB of ram so I could buy the extra 2GB stick myself.

Oh...I just got that you were talking about the lower level model with 1GB....Nevermind. I'm planning on picking up the mid-level model as soons as they get them in inventory at the local store, so I have that one on the brain.

"And even better it's a single DIMM."

UM....Take a look at the specs again. It looks like the MBPs that come with 2GB have to 1GB DIMMs. You can order a 2GB DIMM to replace one of them to bump it up to 3GB, so 2GB DIMMs are available. But they don't come standard on the two upper level models of MBPs.

You can get a Dell with 4GB RAM. The processor can only address 3GB, with the other 1GB going to other things. Don't quote me on that second part, though.

It's the limitation of the Intel chipset. The next generation chip will not have this lower limit.

Either way, the high cost of a 2GB chip and the fact that most people don't need 3GB RAM, much less 4GB, means that it's really nothing to be concerned with.

Will someone explain why you can order 3 gigs of ram (one two gig chip and one one gig chip). But you can not order a MBP with 4 gigs of ram?

This is certainly welcome news as one week after I picked up a 1 gig stick for my MacBook, the prices jumped an amazing 60%!