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Installed OWC 16GB Ram

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melantye

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Just finished swapping the sticks. I can confirm that these babies work perfectly. System can recognize them and CS5 suite/vm can use them.
OWC's 16GB ram is from Samsung. The stock ram is from Hynix.
So far I'm free of trouble, I will report here if anything wrong happens in the future.
 
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please post screen shot of your "About This Mac". I have a hard time believing anyone here spent $1,600 on memory.

Command+Shift+4.
 
Other than the outrageous price, I am wondering if you will see the issues that the Late 2008 uMBP's had with 8gig. Yes, it recognized it, but it made the system incredibly unstable.

You'd think Apple would have offered it on the high-end systems if it was supported.
 
tasslehawf said:
Other than the outrageous price, I am wondering if you will see the issues that the Late 2008 uMBP's had with 8gig. Yes, it recognized it, but it made the system incredibly unstable.

You'd think Apple would have offered it on the high-end systems if it was supported.
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Till this moment no issues at all, will report if I find any. In fact it feels snappier.
 
adrian1480 said:
please post screen shot of your "About This Mac". I have a hard time believing anyone here spent $1,600 on memory.

Command+Shift+4.
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I was about to buy a Dell Precision M6500 for professional work on the go. You can check how much 2*8GB cost from dell. They cost >$4000 in the online config.

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melantye said:
I was about to buy a Dell Precision M6500 for professional work on the go. You can check how much 2*8GB cost from dell. They cost >$4000 in the online config.
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In that case, you got a great deal :D
 
New request by popular demand: Apparently, "About This Mac" doesn't actually tell us how much RAM is being used by and made available to the system. One more screenshot, please: The following part of Activity Monitor (at the bottom) -

screenshot20110312at449.png


If OS X can indeed use the additional RAM, this will show it (so I'm told).

Command+Shift+4, please. You can put to rest a lot of debates. :)
 
A ton of RAM and freaking expensive today, too little RAM and very cheap tomorrow....

Oh, I'm sorry, I was referring to 2GB in 2004. :)
 
adrian1480 said:
New request by popular demand: Apparently, "About This Mac" doesn't actually tell us how much RAM is being used by and made available to the system. One more screenshot, please: The following part of Activity Monitor (at the bottom) -

screenshot20110312at449.png


If OS X can indeed use the additional RAM, this will show it (so I'm told).

Command+Shift+4, please. You can put to rest a lot of debates. :)
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There you go!:)
 

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this is really interesting news. there were a lot of skeptics out there because there's no documentation that suggests more than 8GB of ram can be addressed in the 2011's. so it's really nice to see that it *can* hold more. Unfortunate that there aren't more memory slots, as it would have made adding more ram a much less expensive adventure.
 
granted when I'm working I'm not really posting on forums. I wouldn't take the pic the OP added as a representation of their actual use.
 
adrian1480 said:
this is really interesting news. there were a lot of skeptics out there because there's no documentation that suggests more than 8GB of ram can be addressed in the 2011's. so it's really nice to see that it *can* hold more. Unfortunate that there aren't more memory slots, as it would have made adding more ram a much less expensive adventure.
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Yeah I really hope it has 4 memory slots. much cheaper to get 16G. but I see the dell precision in person and it is a hell of a brick:eek:
 
what are your CPU temperatures using istat pro when running at idle and when browsing the web?
 
Thanks for sharing. Don't let the teens still asking Mom to buy apps bother you.
 
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