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soldered ram

  1. dosdude1

    [Success] PowerPC Mac Soldered RAM Upgrade

    For years now, myself and many others have made attempts to upgrade soldered RAM on PowerPC-based Macs, without any success. As I've found from my vast experience doing such upgrades on Intel machines, just swapping the chips is not all that needs to be done; the system's BootROM also has to be...
  2. dosdude1

    Intel Macintosh Soldered Memory Upgrades

    In this thread, my goal is to discuss the procedures, compatibility, and nuances with regard to upgrading soldered onboard memory on Intel-based Macintosh systems. For the majority of this thread, I will be focusing on my first attempt at one of these upgrades on a Late-2008/Mid-2009 MacBook Air...