Kingston Ram in a Macbook Pro...?

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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Am I able to put in a 1 gig stick of KTA-PB533/1G ram into my Macbook Pro? I see that it is mainly for a powerbook...but would I get any benefit with this in there? I just don't want to hurt m computer =) It is by Kingston.

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    No, you cannot use that in a Macbook Pro. You need ram that meets the following ...



    PC2-5300, DDR2-667, 667Mhz, Latency 5-5-5, Non-ECC, Unbuffered, 1.8V, 200pin



    Check out ramjet.com or crucial if you want non-apple ram.



    -Justin
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  • Reply 2 of 7
    Ignore the last poster. It will work in your MBP and work just fine. I have 2GBs of Kingston's DDR2-533 in mine because I was cheap and I couldn't find any DDR2-667 in local stores (except Apple's, and they wanted $500 for 2GBs at the time... )

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  • Reply 3 of 7
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by halo1982


    Ignore the last poster. It will work in your MBP and work just fine. I have 2GBs of Kingston's DDR2-533 in mine because I was cheap and I couldn't find any DDR2-667 in local stores (except Apple's, and they wanted $500 for 2GBs at the time... )





    Ignore the last poster? Yes you can do a lot of things with a computer that will 'work' but they aren't all correct. When buy a two or three thousand dollars laptop and put sub-standard RAM in it. If you are going to spend that much on a computer you might as well spend the extra 250 for the correct ram.
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  • Reply 4 of 7
    Because when you just spent $2000 on a laptop, maybe you don't have an extra $250 for "correct" RAM. =P

    *shrug* Works out great for me, it's even faster than 2GBs of normal DDR2-667 due to the dual channelness making up for the lack of bandwidth and lower latencies (4-4-4-12) too. Woohoo!
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  • Reply 5 of 7
    backtomacbacktomac Posts: 4,579member
    I'm glad it worked out for you halo, but I'm with Justin on this. Stick to Apple specs on your Ram.
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  • Reply 6 of 7
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by halo1982


    Because when you just spent $2000 on a laptop, maybe you don't have an extra $250 for "correct" RAM. =P

    *shrug* Works out great for me, it's even faster than 2GBs of normal DDR2-667 due to the dual channelness making up for the lack of bandwidth and lower latencies (4-4-4-12) too. Woohoo!



    You can also write code that 'works' but it isn't the best way of doing it. Yes, you can use the RAM, but apple choose 667 for a reason.
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  • Reply 7 of 7
    What kind of performance hit do you take for installing unpaired ram?



    I have a stock macbook (provided by work) that is dipping into Virtual memory too much and I am tempted to put a an extra gig in. Since my work won't pay for it I want to have the option of using the same stick later in a MacBook Pro that I might by with my own money after leopard comes out. Sine the Pro lower model comes with 1 gb in one slot I would then have paired memory.



    Any reason I shouldn't do this?
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