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Has anyone upgraded their 2012 13" RAM to 16GB yet?
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why would you think there would be issues? did you read that somewhere?
many people have 16GB on their 2011's
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opps guess i should of read you post before i pretty much said the same thing
Sorry if I go a little off topic. Is the 2012 13" MBP memory backwards compatible for use with a 2009 or 2010 MBP? Thanks.
Probably. My 2009 13" MBP is currently running PC10600(1333MHz), and it originally shipped with PC8500(1066MHz) RAM.
What used to be termed the Northbridge of a traditional chipset (which includes the memory controller) is now integrated into the CPU. Check the Intel spec sheet for the CPU and you'll have your answer.
yeah. I guess I can do 10GB. Don't really need 16 right now but don't want to buy 2x4s and then be stuck with 4s I don't need in 2 years.
ahh f it. ram is cheap. I'll just buy 2x8GBs.
thanks
Haha. Glad I could help with that.
im gettin this Corsair Vengeance Laptop Memory Kit 16 GB (2x8 GB) DDR3 1600MHz CL10 PC3 12800 next week 
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im gettin this Corsair Vengeance Laptop Memory Kit 16 GB (2x8 GB) DDR3 1600MHz CL10 PC3 12800 next week
that's a better price than the OWC ram modules, is it compatible with the 2012 13" MBP?
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That completely depends on what you have running at any point in time. For many (probably most) users, there would be zero performance improvement with 16GB over 8GB.
I tried upgrading 16gb(OWC modules) on my MBP 13" 2012 Mbp 9.2 with 10.8.2 OS...unable to boot after upgrade!!...it was giving beep sound..rt now its working on 8 gb (on single slot)
Anybody got the same issue? r anybody got solution to fix this issue...
Plz help me to fix this issue...thanks in adv..
Anybody got the same issue? r anybody got solution to fix this issue...
Plz help me to fix this issue...thanks in adv..
First step is simply re-seat the RAM. If that doesn't fix it try one stick at a time. If they both work, try one stick in each slot to see if one of your RAM slots is having issues with that specific module.
If all else fails, return it and try a different brand. OWC is pretty expensive anyway, I'd probably go with some Corsair or even g.skill from newegg.