Macbook Pro with 8gb

dipper17

dipper17

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Hi

Anybody tried or got a Macbook Pro latest type with 8gb of memory installed? Thinking of buying one and noticed that Apple charge £880 extra, when you can get the same from Crucial for £400. Know it's a lot of money, but wondering what benefits you might get?

Seen a couple of sites in the US where people have put in memory from another laptop with 8gb and it has worked, wondered if anyone else has tried it

Cheers

Dipper
 
I have the late 2008 Macbook pro and I've installed 6Gb of RAM in it.

Does it make a huge difference? Well, right now I have Windows 2003 server running with 1Gb allocated, Win 7 with 2Gb, and a load of office apps open. It's still not paging out. So for me, it's massively worth it as I'm constantly using VMWare and parallels.

Without VMWare I doubt I'd ever go above the 4Gb?

My Macbook pro is a fantastic bit of kit - it really has changed the way I work. I've put 6Gb of RAM in it, a 128Gb Crucial SSD *and* a 500Gb Seagate 7200RPM Hard disk for bulk storage.
 
The 'Apple Tax' thing is difficult to work out. I mean they set the prices for a single model and rarely drop unless they're refreshed - RAM prices drop of course, so as time goes on they look even more expensive.

The other thing is of course is that Apple gets to keep the original 4Gb. So you're paying 880 quid or whatever it is for 2 x 4Gb modules whereas if you bought them separately you'd be paying about 500 *and* get to ebay your existing 4Gb, making it even better value. Not that you'd get a huge amount for the 4Gb.
 
That's interesting. A lot of the work I do is going to be in vmware or parallels as I currently use my windows portable to manage several virtual servers and have several windows open at the same time.

What sort of memory did you use for the upgrade?

Cheers
 
MacRS4 said:
The 'Apple Tax' thing is difficult to work out. I mean they set the prices for a single model and rarely drop unless they're refreshed - RAM prices drop of course, so as time goes on they look even more expensive.

The other thing is of course is that Apple gets to keep the original 4Gb. So you're paying 880 quid or whatever it is for 2 x 4Gb modules whereas if you bought them separately you'd be paying about 500 *and* get to ebay your existing 4Gb, making it even better value. Not that you'd get a huge amount for the 4Gb.
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my guess with the 'apple tax' is really they aren't interested in selling you a customisable system when its more cost efficient to sell 2 or 3 set configurations, so they price accordingly to discourage it.
 
Perhaps also due to the existence of certain types of people operating under the mindset that everything computer-related must be bought from Apple, that may as well be fleeced accordingly for extra RAM, etc.
 
It's:

4GB 204-PIN SODIMM 512Mx64 DDR3 PC3-8500 CL7

You'd need 2 for 8Gb obviously - this is for the 2009 MBP though. The previous Unibody will only take 6Gb with 1 x 2Gb and 1 x 4Gb. 2 x 4Gb gives all kind of unhappy weirdness.
 
wush said:
Perhaps also due to the existence of certain types of people operating under the mindset that everything computer-related must be bought from Apple, that may as well be fleeced accordingly for extra RAM, etc.
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Well there's a certain value to that for some people - buy *everything* from one place you can walk back in with any problems you have? To some people I guess that's worth something.
 
MacRS4 said:
It's:

4GB 204-PIN SODIMM 512Mx64 DDR3 PC3-8500 CL7

You'd need 2 for 8Gb obviously - this is for the 2009 MBP though. The previous Unibody will only take 6Gb with 1 x 2Gb and 1 x 4Gb. 2 x 4Gb gives all kind of unhappy weirdness.
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Thanks for the info. Just got to make my mind up about which Mac to have now!:)

Cheers
 
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