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If you don't like comparing the specs you might find it easier to check with manufacturer sales websites. For instance, Micron (crucial) and Kingston are both good about guiding your purchase based on computer model instead of spec. Buy there, or use the specs you find from their site to do more comparison shopping.

Even the RAM manufacturers sometimes list incorrect parts, usually early in a product cycle, but if you compare a few sites against Apple techinfo you'll quickly find the correct common spec and best price. In my experience, both Kingston and Crucial have excellent warranty and general customer service so you can't go very wrong.

As for the Mushkin memory I mentioned earlier, yep, works great. (Mushkin is rarely a bad choice.) Of course my experience with these sticks is limited to this now obsolete c2d MBP.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195