MacBook RAM work in an MBP?

Hate · 1 Feb 2007 at 11:07

Mate has offered me a working stick of 512MB Hynix RAM From his MacBook - Would this fit in the MBP to give me 1.5GB?

its PC2-5300 DIMM

MaxPower · 1 Feb 2007 at 12:34

If you have a slot free, in most cases Apple supply their computers with 2 sticks of RAM already installed so you may not be in luck.

Berserker · 1 Feb 2007 at 12:37

Aye, and with good reason, as that's how you get the best performance.

Hate · 1 Feb 2007 at 12:43

I apparently only have 1x 1GB stick

MagicBoy · 1 Feb 2007 at 12:48

Berserker said:
Aye, and with good reason, as that's how you get the best performance.

Only on the MacBook and Mini - they need dual channel as they have integrated graphics which share the system RAM. The extra traffic from the graphics cards hits memory performance in single channel mode.

The MBP and retail iMac use a discrete ATI/nVidia chip which has it's own graphics RAM. There's no measurable performance increase with dual channel mode on the MBP and iMac as the 667Mhz memory matches the FSB of the CPU.

Hate · 1 Feb 2007 at 13:00

so... in answer to my question...?

Berserker · 1 Feb 2007 at 13:03

Ask if you can borrow it for a while.

MagicBoy · 1 Feb 2007 at 14:02

Hate said:
so... in answer to my question...?

Should work fine. All Intel Macs use DDR2 667Mhz SO-DIMMs.

triggerthat · 1 Feb 2007 at 20:19

Open it up and see if you've got a spare slot. But yes, PC5300 is the right one.

NutritioN · 19 Feb 2007 at 14:07

I have a pre intel Mini, regarding memory the Profiler says:

DIMM0/J11:

Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR SDRAM
Speed: PC2700U-25330
Status: OK

Seems that's one stick?

MagSafe · 19 Feb 2007 at 14:57

Yeah, that'll mean you only have the one slot being used.

Zefan · 19 Feb 2007 at 14:59

You could just open it up and have a look

Much quicker than posting here.

MagicBoy · 19 Feb 2007 at 17:43

G4 Mini's only have a single memory slot...