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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1830279" data-attributes="member: 131855">I'm not a technician nor do I play one on TV but here's what I suspect is happening: Numerous Mac models over the years have had specs which indicate they could take one amount of memory when they could, in fact, take more memory. Some Macs, such as the late 2008 MacBook Pro needed a <a href="https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2.53-aluminum-15-late-2008-unibody-specs.html" target="_blank">rom</a><a href="https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2.53-aluminum-15-late-2008-unibody-specs.html" target="_blank"> update</a> which was readily available from Apple. Other models may not have needed a similar update. In both cases, an important factor seems to be that higher density memory chips with the same form factor became available after the machine in question was released. think Apple's official specs still list the lower ram amount, possibly because the higher memory configuration was never tested before the machine was released.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1830279, member: 131855"] I'm not a technician nor do I play one on TV but here's what I suspect is happening: Numerous Mac models over the years have had specs which indicate they could take one amount of memory when they could, in fact, take more memory. Some Macs, such as the late 2008 MacBook Pro needed a [URL="https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2.53-aluminum-15-late-2008-unibody-specs.html"]rom[/URL][URL="https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2.53-aluminum-15-late-2008-unibody-specs.html"] update[/URL] which was readily available from Apple. Other models may not have needed a similar update. In both cases, an important factor seems to be that higher density memory chips with the same form factor became available after the machine in question was released. think Apple's official specs still list the lower ram amount, possibly because the higher memory configuration was never tested before the machine was released. [/QUOTE]

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