MacBook Air RAM memory upgradable?

xlr8or · Mar 15, 2013, 07:47 PM

Potential Apple customer here. Is the RAM Upgradeable on MacBook Air & MacBook Pro notebooks?

Thanks in advance!

Intell · Mar 15, 2013, 07:49 PM

It is only upgradable on the non-retina Macbook Pros.

thadoggfather · Mar 15, 2013, 11:02 PM

Soldered to the logic board, for your convenience

dbroncos78087 · Mar 16, 2013, 12:32 AM

Air: purchase what you plan to use.

Pro: should still be upgradable. But the retina is not.

stchman · Mar 16, 2013, 12:41 PM

My advice, max out the ram when you order it if you get a MBA or rMBP.

The regular MBPs just get the base 4GB as you can slap in cheap RAM from Newegg for a fraction of the cost of what Apple charges you.

xlr8or · Mar 16, 2013, 03:27 PM

Thanks for the replies .… now for the decisions to make!

73's!

dbroncos78087 · Mar 16, 2013, 03:39 PM

I wish the Air would come with 16gb. I use a VM for Win7 because I use Access and Project for work at times and while 8gb has served me well I watch the Activity Monitor and it gets up to 7gb at times since the VM uses 4gb regardless of whether it needs it or not.

Mar 15, 2013, 07:47 PM	#1
xlr8or macrumors newbie Join Date: Mar 2013	MacBook Air RAM memory upgradable? Potential Apple customer here. Is the RAM Upgradeable on MacBook Air & MacBook Pro notebooks? Thanks in advance!
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Intell macrumors G4 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Inside	It is only upgradable on the non-retina Macbook Pros. __________________ Last edited by Intell; Yesterday at 11:50 AM.
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dbroncos78087 macrumors member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Northern Virginia	Air: purchase what you plan to use. Pro: should still be upgradable. But the retina is not. __________________ 13" MacBook Air Mid-2012: 1.8 GHz i5, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD Mac Mini Late-2012: 2.3 GHz i7, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB HD iPhone 5, black: 32 GB iPad Retina, black: 16 GB
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Mar 15, 2013, 11:02 PM	#3
thadoggfather macrumors 68020 Join Date: Oct 2007	Soldered to the logic board, for your convenience
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Mar 16, 2013, 12:41 PM	#5
stchman macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: St. Louis, MO	My advice, max out the ram when you order it if you get a MBA or rMBP. The regular MBPs just get the base 4GB as you can slap in cheap RAM from Newegg for a fraction of the cost of what Apple charges you.
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Mar 16, 2013, 03:27 PM	#6
xlr8or Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Mar 2013	Thanks for the replies .… now for the decisions to make! 73's!
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Mar 16, 2013, 03:39 PM	#7
dbroncos78087 macrumors member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Northern Virginia	I wish the Air would come with 16gb. I use a VM for Win7 because I use Access and Project for work at times and while 8gb has served me well I watch the Activity Monitor and it gets up to 7gb at times since the VM uses 4gb regardless of whether it needs it or not.
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