When will Apple offer quad-cores and 8 gigs in the macbook pro? 
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When will Apple offer quad-cores and 8 gigs in the macbook pro?
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-9314-9557
Actually, the current range of Santa Rosa based laptops will support upto 8Gb's of RAM, it's been proven by someone who has too much money and too much time to spare. Guess the only thing we're really waiting for is more cores and cheaper RAM modules.
I don't think professionals mind the costs of the ram as long as you're able to put in more than 4gb. There are always thirdparty suppliers too.
Let's hope we'll see a upgraded Macbook Pro line with the quad & 8gb possible at MWSF09.
If you search the forums, you'll find dozens of existing threads on speculations about future MacBook Pro updates, including quad-core. There is no need to start a new, repetitive thread on this.
That's really good to know. I know the originals only supported 2 GB, then 3 GB; I'd been wondering about these models, since they do have 64-bit CPUs and the 3 GB issue was addressed.... Apple has been known (many times) to understate the max memory of their computers... like the Power Mac 9600 (apple claimed 768 MB, actual max 1.5 GB, Beige G3s Apple claimed 192 MB, actual 768 MB, etc).
This means a couple years down the road when RAM prices on 4 GB DDR2 modules have dropped it'll be reasonable to get 8 GB
No, someone has proven that when you install 8 GB, the machine crashes as soon as the OS accesses more than 4096 MB of memory.
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