Good evening all,
A friend of mine has asked me to upgrade his dated MacBook Pro 2010. I've already swapped out the HDD for an SSD which he feels has made the machine considerably faster but in my post installation testing I found it still really sluggish. The MBP in question came with an i7 but only has 4GB of ram. After a fresh install of OS X Sierra on a new SSD the machine was using around 3GB of the ram when sitting idle! And that increased further even when Web browsing or using itunes.
The specs list (see link below) gives the following information about memory
Should I interpret this as 8GB total or that each slot can take 8GB. I appreciate that 16GB will be overkill when compared to the other specs of the machine but for the additional £20 I might as well stick 16GB in if it will be supported. The MBP shipped with the i7 processor but the specs sheet doesn't give much detail on which i7 it is so unsure if that will support more ram. Finally as the ram currently in there is 1066mhz, can I replace it with 1600mhz?
Sorry if these seem like noob questions, I just don't want to buy the wrong RAM.
Thanks
Seb
A friend of mine has asked me to upgrade his dated MacBook Pro 2010. I've already swapped out the HDD for an SSD which he feels has made the machine considerably faster but in my post installation testing I found it still really sluggish. The MBP in question came with an i7 but only has 4GB of ram. After a fresh install of OS X Sierra on a new SSD the machine was using around 3GB of the ram when sitting idle! And that increased further even when Web browsing or using itunes.
The specs list (see link below) gives the following information about memory
- 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 memory; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 8GB
Should I interpret this as 8GB total or that each slot can take 8GB. I appreciate that 16GB will be overkill when compared to the other specs of the machine but for the additional £20 I might as well stick 16GB in if it will be supported. The MBP shipped with the i7 processor but the specs sheet doesn't give much detail on which i7 it is so unsure if that will support more ram. Finally as the ram currently in there is 1066mhz, can I replace it with 1600mhz?
Sorry if these seem like noob questions, I just don't want to buy the wrong RAM.
Thanks
Seb