Q: New Retina Macbook pro 13 Haswell system hang/unresponsive

Hi guys,

Just bought my late 2013 13' rMBP 8g,256 week ago and had 10 times freezes (the first one was in front of an apple employee during the first time initial setup). That's a well known bug so just wait for the updates. The thing is after I browsed my Mac's memory spec it shows Two of the 4g are DDR3, NOT the DDR3L. Do you guys think Apple uses DDR 3 instead of DDR 3L? Or just the stupid mavericks can not recognize DDR 3L memory?

Cheers,

H

Same here...

Hi guys,

Let me make it clear so hope anyone could help!

My mac: late 2013 13' rMBP 8G/256

RAM shows:

BANK 0/DIMM0：

  Size：   4 GB

  Type：   DDR3

  Speed：1600 MHz

  Status：OK

  Manufacturer：  0x80AD

  Part Number：   0x484D54343531521641465238412D50413020

  Serial Number： 0x000000000000

BANK 1/DIMM0：

  Size： 4 GB

  Type： DDR3

  Speed:  1600 MHz

  Status:  OK

  Manufacturer：  0x80AD

  Part Number：   0x484D54343531521641465238412D50413020

  Serial Number： 0x000000000000

Can anybody with the same Mac check their RAM to see if everyone got the same thing?

Cheers,

H

I see DDR3 on my system as well instead of DDR3L

Ta mate! Thanks for the info. How about the Serial Number? Same as 0x0000000000000?

While I am one of the non-panicing users who love the machine despite this glitch and will gladly and calmly wait for a resolution from Apple, I do find it tough to believe that they didn't catch the issue even with its intermittent nature.  Do they not check for console errors when putting the machines through their paces during testing?  That seems quite odd.

I also am not seeing any empiracle data on how many machines are affected.  Without knowning how many machines were sold, we cannot say what would constitute a statistical sampling.  We also cannot say that just because nobody on this thread has reported that they are error free means that all units have errors.  USers who are error freee would have no reason to see this thread.

Anyway, I will admit that if you are a person of science or logic, it's fun to read the threads and try to speculate on these issues.

jshafi wrote:

 

I see DDR3 on my system as well instead of DDR3L

what means that?
I know, the product description of the rMBP is: xx GB 1600 MHz DDR3L SDRAM

They used the wrong (older) ones???? Any tech guru here who can answer this?

idark77

As reported earlier, I have an i7 2.8 with error messages and freezes.

the detail on my system is:

ANK 0/DIMM0:

  Size:          8 GB

  Type:          DDR3

  Speed:          1600 MHz

  Status:          OK

  Manufacturer:          0x80AD

  Part Number:          0x484D54343147533641465238412D50422020

  Serial Number:          0x00000000

BANK 1/DIMM0:

  Size:          8 GB

  Type:          DDR3

  Speed:          1600 MHz

  Status:          OK

  Manufacturer:          0x80AD

  Part Number:          0x484D54343147533641465238412D50422020

  Serial Number:          0x00000000

HumphreyMEL wrote:

 

Hi guys,

 

Let me make it clear so hope anyone could help!

 

My mac: late 2013 13' rMBP 8G/256

 

RAM shows:

 

BANK 0/DIMM0：

 

  Size：   4 GB

  Type：   DDR3

  Speed：1600 MHz

  Status：OK

  Manufacturer：  0x80AD

  Part Number：   0x484D54343531521641465238412D50413020

  Serial Number： 0x000000000000

 

BANK 1/DIMM0：

 

  Size： 4 GB

  Type： DDR3

  Speed:  1600 MHz

  Status:  OK

  Manufacturer：  0x80AD

  Part Number：   0x484D54343531521641465238412D50413020

  Serial Number： 0x000000000000

 

Can anybody with the same Mac check their RAM to see if everyone got the same thing?

 

Cheers,

 

H

Same for my rMBP

Yes i know, but yestarday i saw a rMBP 2.6GHz 512GB without nothing connected, no Guest and no error logs... They sent to me out of mind... 

Indeed - http://support.apple.com/kb/SP691 - shows specs of DDR3L RAM, just as the 15" has. Curious things going on with part/serial numbers on both the 13" and the 15" late 2013 models.

Clinton

Ta mate, hope somebody can figure out the RAM thing.

No problem it is a DDR3L

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+Display+Late+2013+Tear down/18695

see Step 15:

Micron D9PXV 4 Gb (512 MB) DDR3L SDRAM (total of 8 * 512 MB = 4 GB)

For 4GB version, basic rMBP Late 2013

If you look at I fixit.com, tear down of 13rMbp you will see that their machine showed ddr3l ram chips