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		sliverstorm on June 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Buying the new MacBook Air Well, 8GB of RAM also future-proofs you a little bit, and 4GB is starting to reach the cusp... 6GB would probably hold you over for the foreseeable future, but convention dictates 2GB => 4GB => 8GB.

miahi on June 18, 2013 [–]

It's also about dual channel configurations. You get better performance out of two identical memory sticks.

sliverstorm on June 18, 2013 | [–]

The effect is minimal though, 2-3% improvement if I recall.

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