Upgrade RAM ?
Is there any option to upgrade the RAM of my macbook pro mid-2012?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14
What symptoms are making you want more RAM?
If you want to make your MAc faster, first look for the #1 cause of slow Macs—and it is NOT too little RAM—with this little questionnaire:
- Is the computer slow to boot?
- Are apps, especially big ones like MS Office apps, slow to launch?
- Once launched, do the apps seem to run fine?
Three "yes" answers say "old, under-spec mechanical hard drive," not "too little RAM."
Most 2012 Mid 2012 Macbook Pros came with a slow, 5400rpm, SATA II 3G mech hard dive attached to a fast SATA III 6G drive bus. There is the problem. As the macOS grew more complex, these mech hard drive are struggling to keep up. Add to that the normal wear issues of a 10-year old hard drive and your get a slow computer.
If you are willing to do one more post, we can see hard data that will give us a firm foundation for recommendations. In this text-only environment where we can neither see, touch, nor remotely access your computer, looking for culprits is done with a snapshot of your hardware/software configuration. Fortunately there is a safe, secure way to do that.
We can quickly and within the confines of these forums help you determine what issues are at play if you use EtreCheck Pro, available here:
The free version will do nicely for this purpose, although the app is worthy of our financial support.
We can see hard data about drive performance, software issues, and RAM usage. Etrecheck is the development of a long-serving and trusted contributor here expressly for displaying information in these forums to help us help you. It will not reveal any personal or secure information.
Run it, select “Report" from the left-hand pane (scroll down to the bottom of that pane to find):
When its report displays, click the "Share Report" icon from EtreCheck’s toolbar and then "Copy report” from the resulting dropdown.
⚠️ Please DO NOT highlight the text in the report before using Etrecheck’s “Copy report” command—that will garble the formatting and make the report slower and harder to evaluate.
NOTE: Changes in late 2018 to the forum software require you use the “Additional Text" icon (see example below) to embed the report into a post:
Paste the report into the resulting “Additional Text” window:
We can usualy give yo u data-supporte recommendation with on one post of a reprot, saving yo uthe pain and delays of our having to play a protracted game of "20 Questions" with you.
