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Hi,

Would like to know if I was going to purchase the brand new macbook air that just came out, with 4GB can I upgrade the ram myself to 8GB?

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Alex

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Walter Galan
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Hi Alex. Welcome. Unfortunately the RAM is soldered to the logic board, making a simple RAM swap upgrade impossible. The only way to upgrade the RAM is to swap out the logic board for one that has 8 GB RAM modules.

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Stuart Bell
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Usually we think of increasing RAM when there is any downfall in system performance. If it is same in your case also. I would suggest you to go for cleaning Mac drive.

There are many tools for this task and Stellar SpeedUp Mac is of them.

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lionsownu
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Sounds, good. My new macbook air with ivy bridge and Mountain Lions is superfast at 4gb no need for upgrade.

Thanks for responding though.

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Dennis
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yeah its maybe fast with mountain lion, but what happens if you open a couple of browser windows, a big ide and a large photoshop file at the same time... 4gb are, unfortunately, not enough for all this. mountain lion itself needs quite a bit of ram after booting up :(

Dennis, I think you missed the point of the Air is not intended to be a do everything system. If you need that you should get a regular MacBook Pro system. Besides Apple's (and others) direction is to wean you off of carrying it with you design and into the iCloud (internet accessible) where everything is hosted.

Dan,

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When did Apple say this Walter? Apple charge enough for a MacBook Air and its speed should be more than enough for high powered work. There's not much memory left to do much else. They solder it on so that we have no choice but to pay Apple's highly inflated prices just as we have to in the new MacBook Pro. That's not a valid comment Walter. Also Apple want you to use iCloud because, hey what do you know.. it charges for iCloud storage. Let's get one thing clear, Apple don't do anything for YOU.

Steve - See for your self here, this system's memory can't be upgraded: Step 17 - Teardown. No, Apple soldered the memory as it didn't have the space to use plug-able memory modules. The issue is trying to do too much with a system designed for the person on the go, not a desk jockey.

Dan,

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