Mac laptop RAM issue, actually

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Well, my fears that my entire laptop was quickly turning into an expensive paperweight have receded. Someone pointed out that even fairly thorough memory tests may not catch problem RAM, and that a better test would be to actually pull out RAM modules and see if the problem persisted. Sure enough, ever since I replaced the new memory upgrade I'd gotten a few months ago with the smaller original module, the problems with my laptop seem to have gone away. (Whether Leopard will be happy with just 512MB of RAM is another question, though it seems to be doing fine thus far.) I wonder why it took so long to give out?

Anyway, whew. Now I can actually do some of the work I've been putting off over spring break.