Thanks cwa107!
From what I read on "About This Mac", it says memory is upgradeable and points me to url about what modules to buy
Oh, btw, I did forget to mention this is the mid 2012 model.
Excellent! in my view, 2012 was the pinnacle for Mac hardware. After that, it all went downhill.... non-upgradeable, non-serviceable, mostly glued together.
If that's the case, I'm very glad I bought this one. Just some learning to do
However, the rest of what you said isn't so good in my mind.
lol, not a problem with me
I've built and repaired more older pc's than I care to count.
Started with a C=64, then 128, then Amiga's, the OS/2 Warp 3 & 4, then finally a pc. Hated M$ stuff so went to FreeBSD and then OpenBSD.
So, I've seen a lot of systems and hardware over the years Just didn't want to spend the money for Apple/Mac.
So, back to playing/learning about my "new" mac
I think my first project will be finding extra ram for it.
Any way, that's how I became an owner and user of a Mac
Welcome to mac-forums Mike, and my apologies for correcting you with your first post, but your first project will actually be to find out if that Mac actually even needs more RAM.
Hint: Activity Monitor.app (Utilities folder) > "swap" section. 0(zero) would be excellent!!
More info if you need it under the Help(menu) topics and of course the mac-forums.
BTW: What part of Alaska are you in??? And they can sure serve some delicious fish and chips up there!!!
- Patrick
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Hi Al, and welcome from me too
If you go to the Crucial site and trype in the details of your MBP it will tell you what you can do. I too recomend them and that's what I have in my MBP and iMac.
You didn't give any details of what is in yours? I have a mid 2010 MBP and it had a DV read/wrote drive in it. I swopped it out and put a Crucial 1/2 tb SSD in as the boot/OS disk and moved the SSHD 1 tb hybrid dosk in the place of the DV drive. It certainly works for me and if I ever get my act together I will make it work better by a tidy up session
Good luck with it!
I have a mid 2012 MBP with 4g ram and 500g hd.
@Mike
Which 2012 MBPro model do you have??
I thought most of those MBPro models came with 8GB RAM standard.
- Patrick
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Welcome Mike, look at "macsales.com" for your memory sticks.
@Mike
Which 2012 MBPro model do you have??
I thought most of those MBPro models came with 8GB RAM standard.
- Patrick
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well, you got me on that one. I thot that was the model.
It should tell you under the Apple icom (top left corner) and select the "About this Mac".
That should tell you the model, year, CPU speed and amount of RAM memory installed.
For more details check out the specific model here:
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html
- Patrick
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