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6GB in MacBook (Pro); Yes it works. - 8GB... well...

you sure? thought i saw a couple of posts that said that when they swapped the order, everything then worked fine
 
sparkie7 said:
you sure? thought i saw a couple of posts that said that when they swapped the order, everything then worked fine
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There were a couple of posts on RAM placement but in the end it didn't matter. It was for the sake of reproducing the situation on various Mac laptops.
 
ok cool. thanks for the clarification. less then 24hrs before my 4GB stick arrives and I pry open my MBP to fill her up. heheh :D:D

PS is it possible that with Snow Leopard that 8GB will be feasible?
 
sparkie7 said:
ok cool. thanks for the clarification. less then 24hrs before my 4GB stick arrives and I pry open my MBP to fill her up. heheh :D:D

PS is it possible that with Snow Leopard that 8GB will be feasible?
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It seems that Snow Leopard can access 6GB better then Leopard so it is a possibility. The problem is I don't have 8GB I can use right now but I do have Snow Leopard available.
 
i'd send you mine if i were in the US. but sadly i'm in the UK.

Obama, Obama!
 
Its in!

My 4GB GSkill stick arrived this morning. Installed it in the top slot - Bank 1. Booted up and then ran XBench. Before I installed it ie. had the Apple shipped 4GB of 2x2GB the score was 163.15, AFTER installation up to 6GB the score is now 171.00 :D Seems the most improvement is in the Thread test. Now I gotta find out what that is.

Will run a series of apps on a real on-going project and see if it swaps out. At 4GB yesterday it was swapping out about 4.9MB. Lets see if the extra 2GB helps :)
 
4GB G.Skill + 2GB Crucial DDR2/667 Works Great

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Just to followup here. I bought the $159 DIMM from Newegg, and placed it in the outer slot, and it JFWs. No slowdown, no problems, fully recognized in Activity Monitor, at boot, and when I boot multiple VMs, they use the 5th and 6th GB before swapping happens.

Good stuff. Thanks for the posts!
 
oof said:
Hi-

Just to followup here. I bought the $159 DIMM from Newegg, and placed it in the outer slot, and it JFWs. No slowdown, no problems, fully recognized in Activity Monitor, at boot, and when I boot multiple VMs, they use the 5th and 6th GB before swapping happens.

Good stuff. Thanks for the posts!
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yeah so far mine works as well. not sure why alphaods' did not work
 
ayeying said:
I have mine at the outermost slot since the 4GB runs slightly hotter then the 2GB.
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yeah, the one on top right? when you open the machine up. i was just lazy, and couldnt be bothered taking both 2GB sticks out to put the 4GB stick at the bottom :p
 
sparkie7 said:
yeah, the one on top right? when you open the machine up. i was just lazy, and couldnt be bothered taking both 2GB sticks out to put the 4GB stick at the bottom :p
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Yep. I could've stick the 4GB in either slots since I had to take apart the system to install the SSD.
 
ayeying said:
Yep. I could've stick the 4GB in either slots since I had to take apart the system to install the SSD.
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what model SSD you put in. size?

Incidentally, I was pleasantly surprised to find out my GSkill 4GB stick was made by Samsung. Which is what Apple uses

Also, whats the best method to max out the RAM on my machine to test that its registering and using all 6GB smoothly. I read people using VM, is that the virtual microsoft software to run windows?

Is that shipped on my mac or do I have to buy that separately
 
sparkie7 said:
what model SSD you put in. size?

Incidentally, I was pleasantly surprised to find out my GSkill 4GB stick was made by Samsung. Which is what Apple uses

Also, whats the best method to max out the RAM on my machine to test that its registering and using all 6GB smoothly. I read people using VM, is that the virtual microsoft software to run windows?

Is that shipped on my mac or do I have to buy that separately
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I have the GSkill 128GB SSD. Its available on newegg also.

VM = Virtual Machine. We use VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop for this type of testing.
 
ok, so its not free

is there another way to test the RAM? or do I just open every application I've got and max out a big file in Photoshop CS

this should do the trick right?
 
Ok, I pushed my machine right up to 5.90 GB of RAM usage. It clowed down a bit when I cracked a file up to 1 GB and did some manipulations. the CPU went right up to 150% !

so does it mean my 2+4 GB RAM sticks are behaving normally?

my machine hasnt frozen yet and still relatively quick. any symptoms or tell tail signs I should look out for to say otherwise?

I had 886 MB of Page ins, 86.70 MB Page outs and 141.62 MB of Swap used... are these normal?

here's a snap of my Activity monitor..
 

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So if I have this right the older MBP (I have a 4,1 2.6) will support 6gb fine.

My main reason for needing more memory is that I need a development platform in my VMware Fusion with more that the 2GB that I have right now (running windows server 2003). I will need at least 4GB so I think that this might be a fix and prevent me from having to stop running OSX as my main OS with the Fusion for development.

Do I have this right?

I was expecting that the new MBP would support 8GB like the new Dells. They have a Workstation Laptop that support 16gb and 2 HD with Raid. I switch from Dell to the MBP and LOVE IT and would have to have to go back just for development.
 
puzle1 said:
So if I have this right the older MBP (I have a 4,1 2.6) will support 6gb fine.

My main reason for needing more memory is that I need a development platform in my VMware Fusion with more that the 2GB that I have right now (running windows server 2003). I will need at least 4GB so I think that this might be a fix and prevent me from having to stop running OSX as my main OS with the Fusion for development.

Do I have this right?

I was expecting that the new MBP would support 8GB like the new Dells. They have a Workstation Laptop that support 16gb and 2 HD with Raid. I switch from Dell to the MBP and LOVE IT and would have to have to go back just for development.
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You can use 6GB, yes.

I'm still not sure what's going on with the 8GB issue. Apparently, we have many users with 8GB but don't have the resources to test it in another OS... or if anyone has, no one bothered stepping up to report the results.
 
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