<p>Um
my daughter is getting a new laptop for college which is sorely needed.
She is currently using a G3ibook and is looking at macbooks of the smallest size/cost
My question is I see that the refurb alum macbook is the same screen size same amount of ram but 100gb more in hard drive space for about the same price.</p>
<p>However and this is my question- I see that the RAM on the new macbook is DDR2 which is better?
splain please.</p>
<p>I looked on wiki but they didn’t speak English.</p>
<p>EK.</p>
<p>Well, you need to say what the ram is in the refurbished so we can compare.</p>
<p>But historically, Mac’s used a bit different form factor for ram, thus the memory was more expensive (not necessarily better). The new macbooks are using more standard (DDR2) ram, thus possibly cheaper. If the books have the same amount of RAM, I don’t think it matters performance wise. </p>
<p>However, if you are planning on adding RAM, look into the cost of both types. … and unless your D is in the AV field, I don’t think the RAM performance matters a whit.</p>
<p>EK, I know nothing about these matters but I will say that DD got a mac for college and we sprung for the apple care plan as a gift. I highly recommend it if you can swing it. She has had to have the hd replalced on her mac once and because we had the plan we paid nothing. The service is exceptional. They sent me a special box, I fedexed the laptop to them, they fixed it in like two days and fedexed it back :)</p>