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MacBook Pro Supports 16GB Ram

Hi to all,


First time here, and i need some help

I have already an iphone and i will buy a MacBook Pro

due to my needs, i will need more than 8GB Ram , so i am asking if MacBook Pro can support up to 16GB Ram

many of you will correcty wondered why this guy needs so much memory ?

virtual machines including instanses and databases is the answer

of course my primary choise is to buy a MacBook Pro regardless 16GB Ram , but if its support i will be tremendous happy


Thank you


Kostas

MacBook Pro, I will buy a MacBook Pro

Posted on Jun 4, 2012 9:44 AM

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Posted on Jun 4, 2012 9:46 AM

The MacBook Pro models made in 2011 and 2012 support 16GB RAM.


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Jun 15, 2012 7:37 PM in response to Bimmer 7 Series

How is the 16GB RAM upgrade working out for you? Any bad behavior at all? Other World Computing and Crucial have been slowly lowering the price of a 16GB upgrade, so I'm pretty close to buying it. The only thing I worry about is additional heat, or other undesireable behavior. I've installed a 16GB upgrade for one of my customers, but he's not a good person to ask since he's always taxing his system anyway. I only need to do that once in a while when I need to run more than one virtual machine in Parallels, so I expect a lot of extra heat and high RPMs from the fans.

Jun 16, 2012 2:08 AM in response to KTGHowie

I'm running Parallels with 16GB of RAM as well. Typically using Adobe LiveCycle Designer, MS Office 2010 and Acrobat Pro X. Not overtaxing the system at all. No heat or high fan issues at all. Bimmer did get a great deal for his Crucial RAM - he paid about $70, I think. I bought Corsair and paid about $100. Crucial is now at $160. Still, I like their products - I have the Crucial m4 512GB SSD. But I'm happy with my RAM - particularly when I'm on wired power and bumping it up to using 12-13 GB.


Go for it - Crucial, Corsair, OWC... they all have limited lifetime warranties.


Clinton

Jun 16, 2012 10:09 AM in response to Tchou

Why would we need to do that? I guess I'm just trying to understand why someone would go out of their way to install memory that runs at a faster speed than what their system needs. I've installed faster RAM on some Mac Pros knowing that it would simply run at the slower bus speed of the system, but I've only done that when I didn't have the slower RAM available. So, in my case, my MacBook Pro Late-2011 needs 1333MHz memory. That's what will buy.


No judgements... Just trying to understand why someone would go out of their way to install the faster memory when it's not even necessary.

Jun 16, 2012 4:27 PM in response to KTGHowie

You where right regarding Mac Pros, but you are wrong regarding Macbook Pros at least for the Sandy bridge and newer families…

if you go there : http://ark.intel.com/products/53476/Intel-Core-i7-2860QM-Processor-(8M-Cache-up- to-3_60-GHz)

you'll see that intel supports 1066, 1333 and 1600 MHz memory, the system adapts to the speed of the memory

This feature is an INTEL feature and apple doesn't communicate about it, it doesn't mean that it doesn't work…


here are geekbench results with 4Gb@1333MHz

User uploaded file


And here with 8Gb@1600MHz

User uploaded file

If you understand french you can go see the article here : http://www.macbidouille.com/articles/425/page1


Or in english http://www.hardmac.com/news/2012/06/04/macbook-pro-2011-supports-ddr3-1867-mhz-r am-modules

MacBook Pro Supports 16GB Ram

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