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Feb 11, 2011 3:36 PM in response to Jesseeeeeeby Lyssa,Hey Jesseeeeee & welcome to the forums.
This is very interesting! What brand of RAM are you using?
Please keep an eye on how your computer is performing & let us know if any issues arise. I'm quite curious!
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Feb 11, 2011 11:17 PM in response to Lyssaby Jesseeeeee,I bought the Crucial 2x 4GB pack. If I have any issues, I'll be sure to post them to this thread, though I don't anticipate any.
It's great to be able to run 3 VMs, iTunes, MSOffice, XCode, compile, and rsync all at the same time, without any paging. -
Feb 12, 2011 10:16 PM in response to Jesseeeeeeby shanodean,I just tried this with my 2009 2.13GHz board. I too get 8GB working. This is a macbook logic board that I have installed in an Apple G4 Cube enclosure. I'm currently running it with a 128GB SSD drive as my boot drive and an internal 500GB hybrid as a built in backup on the optical drive SATA connector. The internal Superdrive is connected via USB. Everything can be powered either the MagSafe or original MacBook battery which I also installed in the cube.
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May 24, 2011 8:40 PM in response to Jesseeeeeeby 7heM4cM4n,Has your battery been much worse since you installed this 8gb of ram, though? It must have been eating up your battery like crazy.
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Aug 30, 2011 11:43 AM in response to Jesseeeeeeby freddyhm,Your success story motivated me to do the same to my early 2009 macbook. I just got the exact same memory today from newegg.ca and I'm glad to report that it works like a charm! The 8GB is detected and can be fully used. Woot, no more excessive paging! Now I can run two virtual machines, xcode, photoshop and two browsers seamlessly. Thanks for the post!
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Nov 4, 2011 1:54 PM in response to Jesseeeeeeby samuelfromsantiago,is it the pack?
many thanks.
http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?imodule=ct2kit51264ac667 -
Nov 6, 2011 1:55 PM in response to samuelfromsantiagoby freddyhm,Yea that's the one. You can probably get it cheaper on other sites if you look around. I've had this memory in my computer for a while now and I'm glad to say that it's been working like a charm. The battery life does drain faster if the full memory is being utilized, but it hasn't been too dramatic (30% decrease maybe). My battery is about to die anyways so I don't care. I'm curious to see the effects on a brand new one. Hope that helps anyone.
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Nov 6, 2011 2:24 PM in response to freddyhmby samuelfromsantiago,Excellent, I'll tell you how it works for me.
Many thanks Fred!Sam
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Dec 9, 2011 8:01 AM in response to Jesseeeeeeby GeraCh,Hi, I am very interested in upgrading my macbook to 8GB too, but I just have a question ...
Have you tried to re-install/install snow leopard or lion with this memory?
and don't you get occasionally any corrupted files, whether files/photos/videos/downloads etc?? ...
I asked becuase I have tried to upgrade my memory before with other brands and I have had troubles, memory is recognized and the computer apparently works fine, memory passes all hardware tests... but in some tasks, in my case specifically when re-installing the OS or when working with files over 3GB (photos or videos) then files get corrupted and I get error messages....I know this is a memory issue because if I go back to the original memory then everything works fine. So I am just curious to find out if you really haven't had any issue using this memory.
Thanks,
(Macbook 5,2 Early 2009 - Lion 10.7.2 - 2GB Original Memory)
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Dec 9, 2011 9:02 AM in response to GeraChby David Bedford,I've had 8Gig in my 2.4G Intel Core 2 Duo Ali Unibody MacBook5.1 late 2008 running 10.7.2 for 6 months plus now without a single issue.
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Dec 9, 2011 2:56 PM in response to GeraChby freddyhm,Hi Gera,
I haven't tried reinstalling the OS and I haven't upgraded to Lion yet. I don't think it would be an issue since I don't get any corruption errors at all. I use vmware virtual machine and Xcode daily and they both take a substantial amount of memory. I haven't had any problems yet and it's been several months now. I would suggest giving crucial memory a try.
Cheers,
Freddy HM
Waterloo, Canada
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Dec 11, 2011 1:23 AM in response to freddyhmby GeraCh,Thanks David, Thanks Freddy... this is all what I needed to hear... it sounds like it really works great and without any issue at all. I will follow your advise and give it a try.
Best regards
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Dec 12, 2011 6:15 AM in response to GeraChby freddyhm,No problem, Gera. Good luck and keep us updated!
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Jan 7, 2012 4:40 AM in response to Jesseeeeeeby amn_pie,Still working guys? It's a bit of an investment for some of us. It hasn't yet been a month yet, but can anyone report on any issues you may have had? I'd like to upgrade too. Thanks.