More and more users are switching to Mac, and many of them are gamers, a type of user focused on video games and who when arriving on the Mac platform are held back by 2 things, one is the shortage of video games (in reference to Windows), the other is that Mac components They are not focused on this type of use.
That is why Corsair has made available to all modifications of the few components that a Mac allows you to update, this time we talk about the systems of storage and memory RAM.
Macs allow a certain degree of "upgrade" of components, at least until the 2012 models, in these computers the main storage system can be updated, and in the vast majority the RAM.
Corsair, like leading manufacturer of quality gaming products has made its dedicated and Mac compatible products available to the most demanding.
Corsair Neutron XT SSD
The Corsair SSD has a 4-core controller and a read / write speed spikes of up to 560MB / s, This type of storage offers many advantages over conventional storage or HDD, the main and most obvious is an exponential improvement in performance, both when starting the system and when opening applications or loading game screens, but this is not the only one, among them are also lower energy consumption, greater reliability and greater security of your data.
With the Corsair SSD dedicated to the most demanding users you will notice as if your Mac has taken on a new life, and even with a little effort you can exchange your SuperDrive for this SSD with a Data Double adapter and install in the SSD what is known as Boot Camp, in this way you will have a disk dedicated to Windows and in it all video games running at the maximum performance that your components allow, and believe me, it may seem silly but the difference from an HDD to an SSD is brutal, even in video games.
RAM Corsair for Mac
Another component that allows us to update is the RAM, with the options of 8 or 16 GB of RAM DDR3L from Corsair we will see how our Mac is capable of anything, if with our new SSD it could do everything faster, now it will be able to do many more things at the same time, thanks to the increase in RAM (especially in systems with 2 and 4 GB) we can change between applications without this affecting the performance or stability of the system and open as many as we want without our Mac crashing.
The peculiarity of Corsair DDR3L memories is that in addition to having excellent performance they are more efficient, that is, they consume less, and all this translates into a longer battery life and better performance of the rest of the components.
If we update our equipment to 8 or 16GB of RAM, not only will we be able to use apps that we could not before (Total War Shogun 2 on some Macs requires 8GB of RAM to work) but we will also be able to enjoy higher graphic performance on our equipment, and this is due Because most Macs have built-in graphics cards, a type of GPU that uses shared memory as video memory, that is, an amount of RAM is reserved as VRAMThis implies that the more RAM we have, the more VRAM we can reserve for the GPU, a MacBook with an Intel HD 4000 can go from 256 or 500MB of VRAM with 4GB of RAM to 1524MB of VRAM with 8 or 16GB of RAM, This is important since depending on the resolution and quality of textures on our screen and the video games we play, we may not have enough VRAM and have a terrible gaming experience due to this, however 1GB of VRAM is more than enough for all the video games available in OS X and for the majority available in Windows, that is why increasing the RAM will affect the performance of our equipment in a very positive way.
