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Quality RAM for MBP?
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1173027" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>You may be looking at it from the "less than positive" point of view. Apple guarantees that your particular MacBook Pro model will be stable using a maximum of 4 gig of ram. Other folks (3rd party folks and users) are the ones that discovered that this MBP can handle using 6 gig of ram. So I look at it as not blaming Apple...but I consider it a "BONUS" found by other users!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>This sort of thing (where some Macintosh models can handle more ram than Apple "officially" claims)...has mostly been happening since the switch to Intel processors. Before that...it was much more rare. iMac G4's & eMac's were other models that could handle more than the Apple claimed max. level of ram.</p><p></p><p>There are probably folks out there...that as soon as a new Macintosh model or models are released...immediately try to put more ram into them than Apple claims to see if it will work. Sometimes it works...sometimes not.</p><p></p><p>Why Apple doesn't revise the max. ram limit (if a particular model is found to be able to handle more ram & us stable)...I don't know. Maybe there's actually a 1-2% greater chance of some sort of instability when the max. ram is exceeded...and thus maybe Apple doesn't want to create any "bad karma"!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Just a theory.</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1173027, member: 56379"] You may be looking at it from the "less than positive" point of view. Apple guarantees that your particular MacBook Pro model will be stable using a maximum of 4 gig of ram. Other folks (3rd party folks and users) are the ones that discovered that this MBP can handle using 6 gig of ram. So I look at it as not blaming Apple...but I consider it a "BONUS" found by other users!:) This sort of thing (where some Macintosh models can handle more ram than Apple "officially" claims)...has mostly been happening since the switch to Intel processors. Before that...it was much more rare. iMac G4's & eMac's were other models that could handle more than the Apple claimed max. level of ram. There are probably folks out there...that as soon as a new Macintosh model or models are released...immediately try to put more ram into them than Apple claims to see if it will work. Sometimes it works...sometimes not. Why Apple doesn't revise the max. ram limit (if a particular model is found to be able to handle more ram & us stable)...I don't know. Maybe there's actually a 1-2% greater chance of some sort of instability when the max. ram is exceeded...and thus maybe Apple doesn't want to create any "bad karma"!;) Just a theory. - Nick [/QUOTE]
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