New MacBooks to support more than 8GB RAM?

The entire MacBook family has supported more than 8GB of RAM for nearly two years now.

 

The MacBook is dead. There is no more MacBook. The MacBook Pro right now supports 16GB. The Ivy Bridge laptops will support 32GB.

 

Buying RAM from Apple is a fool's errand. You're wasting your money. OWC or anyone else will have better prices.

 

 

Well, 2x 16GB.

Oh neat Ivy Bridge can handle 32 GB even for dual core processors? Will quad handle 64 or is that only for Haswell?

The board is limited to 32.

Actually there is a difference between what the desktop models and the mobiles can handle. At least I recall a difference though finding the documents is a bit difficult. Most of the mobile chips only handle two memory slots.

I am probably getting way ahead of myself as 16 GB DDR3 SODIMM chips (or shall we say DDR4 since that's most likely when they'll be most prevalent) are not even out yet. And we're not even going to begin talking about 32 GB : P

http://ark.intel.com/products/52213

 

Note the ram capacity there. It's the cpu used in the top 27" cto imac. I believe it's chipset dependent. I don't think the laptops support over 16. If they do, I'd want to confirm stability using those 16GB dimms. I know Ivy Bridge will take 32.

 

The fact that everyone is selling 16GB upgrade kits and people have put the RAM in and it works isn't good enough?

Plenty of people have installed it successfully, and OWC guarantees it to work as they sell kits specifically for macbook pros. I don't think there's any reason to provide you with more links. It just has to be a 2011 model. Anything prior to 2011 caps out much lower.

Then go to a RAM vendor with the MBP model number in question. A reputable vendor should be able to tell you what capacities they have available.

As to your SATA drive issue, what is the problem, the interface is designed to be upwardly compatible. As such you loose nothing by running a SATA2 drive on a SATA1 port. Immnot sure if you are just not familiar with electronics or are just a bit dense. I'm not sure what you could possible mean by proof after reading this thread.

Instead of looking for "proof" on this forum, which is foolish in my estimation, talk to the supplier you wish to deal with. Make sure you have specific model information so that the supplier isn't beat it collective heads together to try to get the info out of you.

I already told you configurations that can be guaranteed are available assuming it's a macbook pro that was released in 2011. SATA II can run on a SATA I connection, and with HDDs you're not saturating it anyway. Prior to ssds this didn't matter much with single drive configurations. All this comes down to is that you don't know anything about computers, and you're not even providing the necessary model information. Click about this mac, then more information. Then use mactracker to look it up, or call a vendor that tests ram on macs (like OWC or Crucial) and give them that information. If this is about Ivy Bridge macs, wait and ask one of the vendors at that time. Apple officially supports the maximum amount you can configure in the Apple store. If you want to be safe, don't exceed that. You won't run into stability issues, firmware limitations, or anything else. Beyond that, you have absolutely nothing official. It's just that if the chipset can work with higher density ram, someone will inevitably test it. 

If you behave in public the way you do here, I can't imagine your neighbor thinking positively about you. You have been hand feed the required information to determine what is going on with your model or another. Yet you are oblivious to all around that are trying to help you.

Believe me more than a few are laughing right now.

I'm almost certain you've misattributed your drive failure, that it's a different generation plug is just a coincidence. Drives sometimes die young, just because they're mechanical devices. Drives just down-clock the interface if a newer-spec drive is connected to an old plug. It's like plugging a USB 3 device into a USB 2 jack, or a USB 2 device in a USB1 jack. It will work, just at the slower speed. I've never had or heard of a failure due to the wrong generation of SATA drive.

I've put both more memory than Apple offers in a computer, and I've also put SATA II drives in a SATA 1 connection, multiple times. Both setups generally work just fine. Sometimes there is incompatibility, but it doesn't actually kill drives.

Often, Apple doesn't claim compatibility with more memory because there wasn't enough memory of the largest size to test before they ship. Then third parties test it and it works fine. I've done fine with OWC and Crucial as well.

 

What's wrong here? You can't take five seconds and go read a review? Or dozens of reviews? Or the thousands of user feedback snippets talking about how they were successful in installing 16GB of RAM?

Enjoy blinding yourself to the truth and living without more RAM, if that's your bag. We've told you what we know. It's your problem if you don't believe us.

Edited by Tallest Skil - 6/1/12 at 9:40am

The answers should come from the vendors you intend to work with.
People have gone out of their way to offer up reasoned and varied advice, that makes sense in this context, yet your responses become more irrational each and every time.

I might politely suggest not coming back to this forum, unless you can manage a change of heart.

Hello Tallest Skil ! I am in a plan of getting a Macbook Pro 15"inch. Can I get to it or wait for the next release ?

 

Hey, welcome.

 

We expect updates to the entire MacBook family very shortly. WWDC is an annual event that Apple puts on, and it is nine days away. It's the next best time to expect a MacBook Pro update.

 

Hate to pitch the site like this, but stay tuned here and stay tuned to Apple.com, because we'll update with news about new releases and Apple will update their front page, as well.

 

And if nothing else, don't buy until you see this icon

 

 

next to the MacBook Pro in the Online Apple Store.

Thank you Tallest Skil !