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Guza

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Jan 29, 2018
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Boston
I have two early-2011 MBP’s as follows:



2011 MBP 17” - A1297 | MC725LL/A | (but I’m not sure if it’s a 2.2 GHz or 2.3 GHz)

2011 MBP 15” - A1286 | MC723LL/A | (2.2 GHz)


1 - Can I take my two 8 DRAM chips (16 GB total) from my 17” and put it into my 15” inch with no problems? Are they 100% compatible?


(2 - 204-pin PC-10600 (1333 MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM)


2 - Because of my doubt on the exact Sandy Bridge would this cause any compatibility problems?


3 - And I’m not sure if the 15” inch has the AMD Radeon HD 6490M or the matching “6750M” and Intel HD Graphics 3000 that the 17” inch has, would the DRAM swap cause any graphic problems if the AMD chips weren’t the same?


4 - And I don’t have the 13” inch version but I’m just curious if the same DRAM would be compatible with this model too?


Thank you.
 
(1 & 2) - All 2011 MBPros have the same memory specs.

3 - No, the RAM is identical in all models.
4 - Yes, All 2011 Mac models that have removable RAM have the same RAM specs. (MBPRo, Mac mini, and also iMac)

Bottom line - All 2011 Mac models use the same RAM, so if it works in one, it will work in any other (2011) model
 
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