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Should I upgrade my Mac Mini?
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1524972" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>The OWC memory chart is probably dead on accurate. If they say it will take that much ram it probably will. When I purchased my 2008 MacBook Pro the official maximum memory was 4GB. A year or so later OWC posted a note that the limit was 6GB. Now it is listed at 8 GB for the same machine. I can say for a fact that my machine recognizes the 8GB just as OWC says it does. I installed it about two months ago and not had any issues. </p><p></p><p>What has probably happened is that higher density memory chips are available for your machine now than there were then. IIRC when Apple tests maximum memory configurations they are based on chip capacities at that time. If new chips with the same specs but different capacities become available they don't usually update the max specs because they haven't tested those configurations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1524972, member: 131855"] The OWC memory chart is probably dead on accurate. If they say it will take that much ram it probably will. When I purchased my 2008 MacBook Pro the official maximum memory was 4GB. A year or so later OWC posted a note that the limit was 6GB. Now it is listed at 8 GB for the same machine. I can say for a fact that my machine recognizes the 8GB just as OWC says it does. I installed it about two months ago and not had any issues. What has probably happened is that higher density memory chips are available for your machine now than there were then. IIRC when Apple tests maximum memory configurations they are based on chip capacities at that time. If new chips with the same specs but different capacities become available they don't usually update the max specs because they haven't tested those configurations. [/QUOTE]
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