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Installing RAM in my i7 MBP

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afellowlinguist

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Mar 10, 2011
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Hi MacRumors community,

I have a 15" 2010 i7 2.66GHz MBP that currently has the default 4GB of RAM installed.

Today I went ahead and purchased 8 GB of Kingston RAM. I was always under the assumption that RAM was expensive, but this actually came out to be pretty cheap.

What I want to ask is whether or not there are any known problems with regards to installing RAM that I should watch out for, either in general or related to this particular model of Kingston RAM, or my particular MBP model. Is the installation of RAM just "plug and play," in the sense that I install the hardware and it's good to go?

Additionally, I should note that I have Boot Camp installed with Windows 7 running on it. It runs flawlessly right now. Is there anything I should watch out for with regards to Windows on my Mac when installing new RAM?

Thanks in advance for your help! I appreciate the time that many of you take out of your schedules to offer aid and advice.
 
No special instructions, you'll just take the old out, put the new it, make sure it's seated well, and use the computer as usual.
 
Thanks for the advice, guys. Just to clarify, after installing the RAM, it's good to go in both Windows as well as OS X? Nothing I have to do software-wise, correct?
 
Plug and play, if it's seated correctly and not defective(sometimes happens), it will boot right up and be perfectly normal in either OS instantly.
 
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