So has it been established that 8GB works in a late 2008 uMBP 5,1 successfully?
It appears so.
So has it been established that 8GB works in a late 2008 uMBP 5,1 successfully?
Anyone in the UK managed to buy 8GB RAM for a Late 2008 uMBP (5,1) that works perfectly? Any links?![]()
I'm looking too - I've got the same machine as you (late 08 uMBP, ExpressCard, dual Nvidia, currently at 4GB) and would definitely be up for trying 8GB.
Can someone confirm whether the following RAM spec should work in my machine? (I't's basically the same as the 4GB spec, just with denser chips -- I *think* it should work, but always good to get a second opinion.)
2x 4GB PC8500 DDR3 1066MHz SO-DIMM 204-pin
...such as this kit from Crucial (http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT2KIT51264BC1067)
I just received Mushkin 2x4GB DDR3 1066MHz SODIMMs and a friend has the late 2008 unibody MacBook (not Pro, the only aluminum MacBook without firewire Apple ever made). I'll try putting 8GB in that, and I'll report back.
How did it go?
8GB kept crashing my MBP. Might've been a faulty chip though, but currently running 6GB and it's working great.
Will my MacBook (Pro) support up to 8GB?
- Only the Santa Rosa and Penryn (MacBook (Pro) 3,1 and 4,1) can support this much memory. The MacBook (Pro) 2,1 only supports upto 3.25GB ram accessible so adding in 8GB wouldn't matter since you can only access >4GB.
If you fall into Rev D or Rev E specs (or Unibody MacBook Pro 15"), you can support up to 6GB w/o problems. 8GB is only allowed on the Unibody MacBook Pro 17" currently.
My MacBook pro late 2008 (MacBookPro5,1) works fine and is stable with 8GB. My tests have been done by booting SL in 64-bit.
MPB5,1 should only take 6gb of RAM. Have you run the piggy app that saturates your RAM? Typically, in this machine with 2x4gb, once your breach the 4gb of RAM used the machine comes to a crawl.
I installed 8GB (2x4GB) in the late 2008 13" Unibody MacBook 2.0 GHz. (Identifiers: Late 2008/Aluminum - MB466LL/A - MacBook5,1 - A1278 - 2254). It's the only Aluminum MacBook (and without FireWire) Apple ever made (except for the 2.4 GHz version too). I opened every app my friend had and it still only used 2.8 GB, so I ran Rember, it ran a single process "memtest" that used 6.11 GB right away and tested the memory. It passed. I have plenty of screen shots I copied to my Mac from his.
Here's some screen shots (Window shots). A shot of Rember, a memtest app, and a window shot of System Profiler with the Memory Tab selected. The pretty "About This Mac" image showing "8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3". And finally the two Activity Monitor shots, one running many apps (but the memtest process running less than 6GB), another with memtest at 6.11GB. Yes, I did remove my friends user name with "user", sorry it's not a perfect copy and paste using "Preview", but examine the rest of the .png images and you'll see they're genuine.
Of course many of you know that only 7.75 GB total memory is reported because the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M shares 256 MB from the 8 GB total. Of course it's proof that 8 GB are in there.
Gatortpk and MrMyth - PM me your email addresses and I'll send you the piggy app to test your MBP with 8 gb.
Gatortpk and MrMyth - PM me your email addresses and I'll send you the piggy app to test your MBP with 8 gb.
Respectfully decline. It appeared stable but the setup managed to bork one of my important VMs. Took a look at Console and saw errors I've never had on my Pro before. I pulled the 8GB before any serious damage was done. It still stalled on reboot and I had to restore my TimeMachine backup from before the 8GB install.
During use you couldn't tell anything was wrong, but it was clear the filesystem was ******** the bed in the background.
I've tried the link http://rapidshare.com/files/431137304/Piggy_by_CaveMan.zip I found in another post, but it isn't available anymore...
As a newbie, I'm not allowed yet to send PMs. Don't you mind to publish your piggy app download link again?
Thanks.
MPB4,1 17" 2.6GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo 2x2GB DDR2 SDRAM 667mhz
Would LOVE to boost my RAM since it has become an issue in particular with Photoshop. The newegg links on the first post say the G.Skill are "Deactivated and may not be restocked" I went through the Crucial system scan and it would only offer me 2x2gb which I already have.
Is there another option?
Kind of esoteric config since I was in that gray area end of year (2008) where my small biz had to spend some cash or send it to the tax man so purchased this which was just a couple weeks later deprecated by the latest and greatest. Was great to get this machine delivered but mixed with some regret that I received it just as the new model was available for new orders... So that's my sob story. Today I was excited to see Buy.com having 8gb package only to be deflated to figure out that I need DDR2 instead of DDR3.
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP41.00C1.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.28f3
Serial Number (system): W88500HQ3R9
Your system can handle 6GB. Just order a single 4GB PC2-5300 SODIMM, it's about the most common DDR2 around. You can get one for about $89. It seems the price for DDR2 is going back up? Anyhow, that's not much more than 2x2GB for 4GB at $70.
It's nice you got the 2.6 GHz speed increase option for $250.
thanks gatorpk
I am going to give it a shot. Quick scan on Newegg they have a 4gb Patriot for $69.99
here's the link to the 4mb on newegg in case it is useful to anyone else. I ordered it and I'll post an update on how it goes:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220495