how to increase vram in macbook pro 13 early 2011

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how to increase vram in macbook pro 13 early 2011

I recently bought Macbook Pro core i5, 13in early 2011.

Is there any way to increase VRAM in my macbook pro. I want to work for Graphics specially in After effects and Adobe Photoshop. But when I started photoshop I saw an error that I have only 384MB of vRAM I can't work on such low vRAM... I am feeling I lost my money because of no available enough ram 😢

Current specs are:

Macbook Pro 13in i5 - 4GB - 320 GB. early 2011

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 4GB, Core i5-2.3, 320GB

Posted on Dec 4, 2014 1:14 AM

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mfarooqi Author

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Oct 30, 2015 6:52 AM in response to mfarooqi

I am answering my own question.. because I did it, and it worked..

I simply installed more RAM. Apple's website said, my laptop can support maximum 8GB, (4GB+4GB), but I tried 10GB.. by changing one module from 2GB to 8GB.. now I have 10GB (2GB, 8GB). Speed is awesome. now. 🙂 and VRAM is now 512MB.. Previously it was 384MB..

The vendor on the computer shop was saying.. I can upgrade to 16GB, then I will have 800+ VRAM.. But I dont' now or I will do when I will upgrade my Macbook pro to any newer version.

Thanks vendor. Your solution was the answer of my question .

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