Installed OWC 16GB Ram

[Qinjiezhe]

Very Helpful Thank You - going to purchase

Some of these posts are funny. There is so much anger for him buying the RAM. This thread helped me in making my decision to purchase this RAM. I can't tell if some posts were kids or non-administrators. I run a datacenter and am also a financial analyst for an international oil company. I run a Mac Pro tower with six screens which is pretty standard in the financial industry and added 32gb of ram (I also render and compile on it). Also I took my MacBook Pro 15 inch and swapped in a 1TB 2.5 WD drive (Google Shopping Link: http://www.google.com/products/cata...a=X&ei=VEgLTtnDBIrW0QHRpMWrAQ&ved=0CGwQ8wIwAA) for the main drive then took out the cdrom and used an optibay mod to add another 1TB WD drive. I use every bit of it and the lack of ram (non 16) bogs down my machine when I am running statistics, running 2 or 3 virtual machines (windows 7, backtrack, ipcop), compiling code, running adobe cs5 master suite, and stock trading on the go. The 16gb of ram is perfect for me. This post helped me to decide if it would work or not. Anything else is irrelevant. Maybe you should find out what he is doing on his computer before you bash him, likely he is more adept at using a computer than you if he needs 16gb of ram.

Qinjiezhe

 

[nunes013]

when i was your age i used a desktop with 16MB of RAM, and it was the fastest there was....and yes i am not that old

he said he used it for work which obviously makes him an adult and not a kid.

everyone is just jealous of the OP. when he posted the screen shot we dont know what he was running. maybe he wasnt running his work programs and just a browser and itunes or something. in a couple years when prices come down and all you haters have 16 gb in your machines everyone is going to say why do you need that and what will you say then?

 

[DWBurke811]

. Also I took my MacBook Pro 15 inch and swapped in a 1TB 3.5 WD drive for the main drive then took out the cdrom and used an optibay mod to add another 1TB WD drive

Qinjiezhe

Ummmm something doesn't add up here at all.

3.5" drives won't fit in a MacBook, but let's say you meant 2.5"; that's cool, but WD doesn't make 1TB drive that fits in a optibay. So not saying you're making all this up, but what you said isn't possible.

 

[Timur]

Audio, video and image editing applications need all the RAM they can get, virtual machines (Paralles, VMware) also come to mind. If you are using bootcamped Windows the RAM is used for prefetching data into the file-cache, which speeds up application and data loading once you need it.

I'd take as much RAM as possible any time of the day. The prices for 16 gb were prohibitive though, so 8 gb has to do for the time being. Have fun and profit with your new 16 gb. And maybe run a session of Memorytest over them to make sure it's all good.

 

[Qinjiezhe]

Ummmm something doesn't add up here at all.

3.5" drives won't fit in a MacBook, but let's say you meant 2.5"; that's cool, but WD doesn't make 1TB drive that fits in a optibay. So not saying you're making all this up, but what you said isn't possible.

Sorry DWBurke811, that was my mistake. I meant to say that Western Digital makes a 2.5 1TB drive. I put the 3.5 TB WD drives into my Mac tower.

I posted screen shots to show that it is possible. I can take a screenshot of the inside of the MBP if you wish as well that is not a problem. The optibay says that it can fit the 1TB hard drive in the 17 inch. However the space in the 15 inch unibody is around the same and I was able to squeeze it in. The 1TB drive is a shade fatter than a normal 2.5 drive but it will still fit in both spots. So all in all it is entirely possible and done.

Here is the link for the 1TB 2.5 inch: http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Scorpio-Cache-Notebook/dp/B0034ZD5P0

Here is another link for the 1TB 2.5 inch (Google Shopping): http://www.google.com/products/cata...a=X&ei=VEgLTtnDBIrW0QHRpMWrAQ&ved=0CGwQ8wIwAA

Qinjiezhe

 

[xxBURT0Nxx]

^^ samsung now makes a 9.5mm 2.5" 1TB HDD

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/08/samsung-spinpoint-m8-puts-1tb-drives-on-a-diet-just-in-time-for/

I believe I saw it on sale for $150 on the net.