GoodThe Late 2008 MBP can support 8GB RAM

[robbiluo]

I upgrade my MBP(C2D 2.4GHz,Late 2008 MBP) to 8GB RAM(4GB X 2），and the system is stability as ever.The official said the maximal memory it can support is 4GB，and many people said it can support 6GB.

 

[iRez]

is this the Santa Rosa MBP? or unibody MBP?

 

[youngmac]

robbiluo i have the same mbp, does it make the system faster.
because i have 4 gb in mine and my system never use the whole 4 gb. i rarely use so many apps at the same time. is it worth it?

 

[POX]

is this the Santa Rosa MBP? or unibody MBP?

Late 2008 is unibody.

 

[Santabean2000]

robbiluo i have the same mbp, does it make the system faster.
because i have 4 gb in mine and my system never use the whole 4 gb.i rarely use so many apps at the same time. is it worth it?

Then, no.

 

[robbiluo]

robbiluo i have the same mbp, does it make the system faster.
because i have 4 gb in mine and my system never use the whole 4 gb. i rarely use so many apps at the same time. is it worth it?

8GB will not make your system faster,the ssd can make,I think.
If you use virtual machines ，The 8GB RAM can give you much better experience。Now I allot 2GB to the windows7 in PD，it runs very smoothly。

 

[POX]

I upgrade my MBP(C2D 2.4GHz,Late 2008 MBP) to 8GB RAM(4GB X 2），and the system is stability as ever.The official said the maximal memory it can support is 4GB，and many people said it can support 6GB.

What brand of RAM did you use?

 

[robbiluo]

What brand of RAM did you use?

SamSung DDR3 1066

 

[POX]

SamSung DDR3 1066

No problems whatsoever?

I´ve already read some threads about 8GB on late 2008 MBP and people report problems and have to boot SL on 64bit mode...

 

[nilsemil]

this is interesting. this works for real?

im upgrading late 2008 mbp 15" to 4 GB. what do i need to know?

http://www.inet.se/kategori/368/1066mhz-pc8500

 

[pricej636]

Just because the machine sees the 8GB doesn't mean it will use all of it. The problem many were having is when you got above the threshold of what the machine is able to use (either 4 or 6GB) the rest would go to swap.

I really don't know what you guys are doing to use more than 4GB. I very rarely see over 33% memory usage, and I think the highest I have ever seen is 50%. If I upgraded is would be just to geek out and not because I actually needed it.

 

[thefunkymunky]

There is a very lengthy thread here on MR about this very issue.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/573906/