Does upgrading from 2gigs of ram to 4 gigs actually make a difference?

[FearoftheNight]

I'm thinking about upgrading my Macbook Pro from 2 to 4 gigs. I don't do encoding or crazy photoshop I just usually have like 30 tabs open in firefox along with adium/itunes/vlc/azureus/word/excel. Would I notice a difference? Thinking about popping this in there Newegg

 

[DSF]

Is it slow right now?

 

[aclim]

it wont hurt...

 

[aatf510]

For normal usage (Web browsing, IMs, Office Apps), I really didn't see any performance differences at all.

The only time that I see a very significant different is that when I fire up Vista x64 within OS X through VMware, and I was able to allocated 2GB of ram just for Vista, and I guess the remaining 2GB goes to OS X.

I am speaking from my experience going from 2GB to 4GB on a Macbook Pro 15" 2.4GHz

 

[MichaelD]

Go for it. More system RAM is never a bad thing.

 

[dmw16]

RAM is cheap and can't hurt. So why not.

I have 4GB on my Macbook and it is nice and speedy.

 

[0roo0roo]

osx uses ram for caching quite well. i'm sure it'll find use for it.

 

[FearoftheNight]

does it matter which one i buy off newegg? is the one i'm looking at ok for what i need?