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Best 8GB RAM for 2011 MBP 13?

szolr said:
+2 for Crucial. :)
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+3

I've used Corsair in my PCs for years and it's excellent. We also use it at work and only ever had a couple of sticks out of many hundreds fail. I've not used it long term in a Mac so would always favour Crucial for the extra couple of £/$.
 
I bought the Cosair about 2 months ago when it came on sale on Amazon for around $38. Took me more time to screw the screws than to actually install the RAM. Extremely easy process and well worth the money I paid.
 
I would also recommend Crucial, very reliable memory from my experience. My 8 GB upgrade cost me $69.95 after sales taxes and it only took me about 5 minutes in total to perform the upgrade; it's an excellent bang for your buck.
 
I am going to get some 8GB memory for my early 2011 MBP. Why pay $200 from apple when you can DIY for $50... I just need to save up!
 
I just went and bought 2 separate SO-DIMM DDR3, 4gb, PC3-10600, 1333МГц, Samsung Original for $28 each. I couldn't be happier with the purchase. After ~3 weeks of heavy use all is working well and I also ran 3 passes of memtest on it.
 
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Anyone have any suggestions for 16gig ram? been looking at stuff on newegg but I'm completely in the dark on this kind of stuff.... Thanks!
 
cory.williams said:
Anyone have any suggestions for 16gig ram? been looking at stuff on newegg but I'm completely in the dark on this kind of stuff.... Thanks!
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You're aware that 16GB may not be supported by some models of MPB, right? I would suggest you check the specs of your model to ensure it will fall into the maximum allowable.
 
Best brand is the one on sale/has rebate at that time :D

Serious note, have had good personal experience with Crucial and Corsair.
 
trikky said:
You're aware that 16GB may not be supported by some models of MPB, right? I would suggest you check the specs of your model to ensure it will fall into the maximum allowable.
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didn't know that but I'd sure hope mine does.... Just got it from the refurbished apple store and its a FEB 2011 model I believe.
 
trikky said:
...especially when they write that they know there are lots of existing threads already, but couldn't be bothered looking them up first.
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In defense of those who do this...

...the search engine here on MR really sucks if you want to hone in on something specific.
 
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