Advice needed for upgrading RAM

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Advice needed for upgrading RAM

I've upgraded the RAM in my Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook - MB466LL/A and now I'm looking to do the same for my girlfriends white polycarbonate Macbook - MB402LL/A.

I know its a pretty easy process actually swapping out the memory but I'm confused because I keep reading that the memory is expandable to 6 GB but Apple only supports 4 GB.

Can I go all out and do 6 GB?

Is it worth it or should I just go for 4 GB?

Also her RAM is currently DDR2, would her computer be compatible with DDR3? I'm thinking no but I thought I'd throw that out there as well...

Im confident I can handle physically swapping the memory but I wont pretend like I know anything about hardware and compatibility.

So your advice would be very much appreciate!

Thank you

-Austin

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Mar 5, 2013 6:15 PM

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shldr2thewheel

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Mar 5, 2013 6:31 PM in response to AShawLikeFrito

6gb is the max and you need the following type of ram:

200-pin PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 SO-DIMM. Apple tested it with 4gb, since then 6gb has been proven to work as tested by many 3rd parties. Apple does not go back and test so they can't say 6gb is the max, but it is.

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Mar 5, 2013 7:46 PM in response to AShawLikeFrito

6GB is the maximum amount of RAM you could install, as mentioned previously, but I would personally suggest 4GB - that is, 2GB + 2GB. Good luck! 🙂

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