Macbook Pro (2010) 16gb memory

I have the 2010 2.4 i5 macbook pro 15" What ram did you use andrewfrommlt? I was just searching today trying how to do this and saw you just posted on the old thread about it!

I got mine from OWC, performance has been great and boots much much quicker than before. Mine are like the ones below, not cheap but worth the upgrade 🙂

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/8566DDR3S16P/

I am assuming you have the 13 and not 15inch MBP 7,1 Andrew?

Has anyone been able to successfully install 16gb RAM on 2.4Ghz 15inch MBP 6,2? Or even 12gb, I would be happy with that for the time being!

If it is a 13" 6,2 you can fit 16GB, if it is a 15 or 17" the max is 8GB.

I have an early 2011 13" MBP and I am successfully running 16 gigs of memory. Got the memory from OWC.

Arsenal1199 wrote:

FOR THE LOVE OF JEHOVAH!!!!!

If you have a 13" running 16GB with no problems, then WELL DONE! WE BLOODY KNOW ALREADY!!

19 pages, and the last 15 infected with nothing but happy chappies telling us how well their 13" MBP's are working with 16GB!! Dear lord (and I say that as an atheist!!), would ya please stop? Seriously? The rest of us with 15 & 17's are still looking for a solution,

The 15 and 17" models accept a maximum of 8GB, if you want more then you'll need to buy another Mac

Are you serious? No way! Wow, that's just blown me away - I mean, absolutely nowhere in the last 19 pages gave me any indication of this at all!

Stop everything guys - stop ever trying to innovate, explore, investigate, improve or indeed disprove anything you've ever read or been told. Because it says so in the manual, it is simply impossible for anybody else outside Apple to ever come up with an alternative solution to anything they've ever done.

Thanks for that Csound - really constructive reply there.

You may not like facts, but facts they are.

Your statements are "facts" only by technical definition; that is, they convey information that can be verified as true or false objectively. They are not facts in the common-usage definition, which generally refers to objective statements known to be true.

To turn your assertion into something that is objectively known to be true, you would have to say something like: "Apple does not support use of more than 8GB of RAM in the 15" and 17" models, and cannot officially assist you in any way in attempting to use more than that." There is anecdotal evidence in this thread that somebody has been able to make such a configuration work at least partially on at least one occasion, which, if true, means that "[these models] accept a maximum of 8GB" is, as a blanket statement, verifiably false.

Besides, if you read back through the entire thread, you can see that we figured this out (that Apple doesn't support more than 8GB in these machines) several pages ago. So pointing it out again, 19 pages into the thread, doesn't add anything productive to the conversation.

Furthermore, as an apparent Level 8 member of this forum, you ought to know without having to even think about it that Apple has not made a 17" MBP since they discontinued the 2011 model (the MBP8,3), so those of us who need that size of screen and more than 8GB of RAM have no options currently available from Apple at all, and the only existing solution that doesn't involve some kind of hack is to find a MBP8,3 for sale in good condition somewhere—and good luck finding one at anything resembling a reasonable price for a model that's three years out of date.

Apple has given no indication that they ever again intend to make a 17" MBP, Retina or not. So those of us who need it have to make do with what we can hack out of the ones we already have. And that's what this thread is ultimately all about. All that your comments have done is reveal that you believe that making a comment, even a counterproductive one, is a better use of your time than ignoring a thread that you have nothing of value to add to.

/pedant

Now, if you'll excuse the rest of us, we'd like to keep trying to find a solution. Go rain on somebody else's parade.

Thank you Mark! I did debate a further response myself to his last comment - but I could feel myself beginning to lose the plot, so decided rubbing my face with an angle grinder was the more preferable option than feeding him.

We may never find a solution, but doesn't mean we should stop trying.

Cheers for you reply mate - made my day (even if it is only 6:45am!) 😉

You're excused, you can continue to pander to others with more of your hopeful fantasies.

That's a nice thing to do, lead people on.

Can you please tell us if it is the 15" MacBook Pro Mid 2010?

Has anyone tried memory brands other than OWC, like Kingston maybe?

jayarjo wrote:

Has anyone tried memory brands other than OWC, like Kingston maybe?

Yes

That is why I recommend OWC.

I don't know if any of you are still following this post, but will the 16gb memory from OWC or Crucial work with my computer?

MacBookPro 6,2

Mid 2010, 15", 2.4GHz (Intel Core i5 processor). I have 8GB now.