How much ram will this hold?

[iphonesrq]

Macbook 2.4ghz core 2 duo?

I found one that someone is selling & they say it has 6GB of ram? My MBP will only hold 4gb??

thank you

 

[stridemat]

It could have 6gb installed but it would only be able to use 4gb. Seems strange though.

 

[iphonesrq]

so under "about this mac" should it say 6 or 4

 

[stridemat]

so under "about this mac" should it say 6 or 4

It should only say 4gb as that is the maximum that it can for want of a better word 'understand' if that makes sense.

 

[flopticalcube]

6GB is correct.

Understanding Intel Mac RAM - Mac Guides

 

[iphonesrq]

6 is correct?

I went to crucial & ramseeker & they both say 4 is max??

 

[stridemat]

OP does the macbook have a nVidia chipset?

I was assuming that it was an older model. I might of assumed wrong

 

[iphonesrq]

6GB is correct.

Understanding Intel Mac RAM - Mac Guides

wow, you might be right! I went to that site

 

[iphonesrq]

How can I tell if it has this new chip?
Will it say under about this mac?

 

[flopticalcube]

Is the body made of aluminum?

 

[Techguy172]

How can I tell if it has this new chip?
Will it say under about this mac?

If the MacBook is made of Aluminum then it can support 6GB of ram. otherwise it doesn't.

 

[Insulin Junkie]

How can I tell if it has this new chip?
Will it say under about this mac?

See what chip you have here: About this mac > More info > Graphics

 

[iphonesrq]

Is the body made of aluminum?

No, it's white

 

[flopticalcube]

4GB max then. Only the new 2.0GHz nVidia MacBook can do 6GB (and the Aluminum body one).

 

[iJimmy]

6GB would be the max. It's more expensive and IMHO it's not worth it.

But if you do decide to get 6GB you can get it from macsales.com

 

[Insulin Junkie]

6GB would be the max. It's more expensive and IMHO it's not worth it.

But if you do decide to get 6GB you can get it from macsales.com

At the risk of hijacking the thread... I wanted to add more ram to my 2.0 unibody, how much could I install while still seeing a boost in performance before installing more ram becomes useless? 4GB?

 

[flopticalcube]

At the risk of hijacking the thread... I wanted to add more ram to my 2.0 unibody, how much could I install while still seeing a boost in performance before installing more ram becomes useless? 4GB?

Depends if adding more RAM now would boost the performance. You have to look at Activity Monitor to see if you have less than 25% free/inactive RAM and if your pagein/out ratio is less than 10.

 

[iJimmy]

At the risk of hijacking the thread... I wanted to add more ram to my 2.0 unibody, how much could I install while still seeing a boost in performance before installing more ram becomes useless? 4GB?

You may find the answer you're looking for here

 

[Insulin Junkie]

Thanks folks, I'll go for the 4 gigs, definitely.

 

[nick9191]

MacBook Pro: June 5th, 2007
MacBook: November 1st, 2007

Any laptop purchased new after it's corresponding date has the ability to unofficially support up to 6gb of RAM, excluding the current 17" and high end 15", both of which can officially support 8gb of RAM.

 

[maennj]

Wow, I didn't know this. Thank god I didn't buy memory pair yet.

I have a question though, will Mac OS X installed on Aluminum MacBook utilize the full 6 GB memory. The MB I bought has 2 GB memory.I didn't get it yet but I'm not sure if it has 64-bit version of the OS.