Since I will have to jump into the OpenCore world...

[RAMtheSSD]

Since it is possible on a cMP, might it be possible to add some wildly large amount of ram to a unibody aluminum MBP? I would not change the motherboard or trade my 6,2 for 2 extra gigs of ram (ie. 13" MBP) but... does anybody know if the ram limitation is in OS X or the motherboards? When Apple first sold me the cMP they told me 32gb would be plenty... who could possibly need more? [sic] and now, I am looking forward to 256gb so maybe the MBP could see 32gb?

(AFAIK), the improved ram on the cMP is due to OpenCore's capabilities and are OS independent but, if it helps, I will be moving to OpenBSD as soon as I know enough to install it and ask an intelligent question or two.

I grew up at a time when there was never enough ram. It now seems quaint to talk about it but a workstation with 16mb of ram was once talked about as "wildly exaggerated" and "well beyond anyone's needs" and I was often told --concerning the machine itself-- that "no one will ever use that much computing power"... If I had kept the cow spotted boxes, it would be a collector's item now...

 

[RAMtheSSD]

To the 145 or so people that have looked, thank you for looking, all I have is hope --what happens when the technology intercept equivalent is almost as much as my cMP once was and that is far more than I can --anyone?-- afford right now.

I was once told that Mac mini "low density?" memory would work. I can honestly say that I do not know what that means or why it would work; in my hubris, I was humbled by my ignorance.

 

[Macdctr]

As far as I know the max ram you can put in your 2010 MBP is 8GB. I personally don't know if you can even use two 8GB modules to upgrade to 16GB on this machine like you can with the 2012 models so looking to upgrade yours to 32GB is doubtful although I would love to hear just how much you can upgrade ram on 2010 models.