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Moderator billford
(moderator) Thu 12-Jul-12 13:28:08
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Re: Memory upgrade for 2011 i5 MacBook Pro


[re: goldenoldie] [link to this post]
 
It was very tempting and (at least where hi-tech toys are concerned) I'm not very good at resisting temptation... so upgrade to 16GB ordered smile

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Standard User goldenoldie
(knowledge is power) Thu 12-Jul-12 14:04:50
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Re: Memory upgrade for 2011 i5 MacBook Pro


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lucky you - I could only go to 8GB laugh

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Standard User TheHorseman
(knowledge is power) Thu 12-Jul-12 14:59:21
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Re: Memory upgrade for 2011 i5 MacBook Pro


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I have 12GB in my mid 2010 iMac and am occasionally tempted to replace the original 2GB modules with 4GB ones.

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Moderator billford
(moderator) Thu 12-Jul-12 15:14:46
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Re: Memory upgrade for 2011 i5 MacBook Pro


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It's slightly sobering to realise that just one of the new memory modules (costing <£20) contains more1 only slightly less RAM than all my old computers put together, and more than twice the total HDD space of the first two shocked


1 edit- I forgot one of them blush

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Edited by billford (Thu 12-Jul-12 15:23:29)

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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Thu 12-Jul-12 15:53:57
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Re: Memory upgrade for 2011 i5 MacBook Pro


[re: xela] [link to this post]
 
I've currently got 2GB in my Late-2008 Aluminium Macbook running Lion and it absolutely crawls. I'm going to pickup the Corsair 8GB DIMMS, even though Apple claim that this model maxes out at 4GB - there seems to be much success with upgrading it to 8.
Standard User TheHorseman
(knowledge is power) Thu 12-Jul-12 17:40:24
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It is. I can still remember my first hard drive, it was 10MB (yes MB) and it was the size of a shoe box. (full height 5.25 MFM).

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Standard User jchamier
(knowledge is power) Thu 12-Jul-12 23:04:03
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In reply to a post by TheHorseman:
It is. I can still remember my first hard drive, it was 10MB (yes MB) and it was the size of a shoe box. (full height 5.25 MFM).


I remember a 10MB HDD on an expansion card in the late 80s (would have been ISA slots) - Western Digital product. It was only marginally quicker than the floppy disks but the capacity was incredible. smile

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Moderator billford
(moderator) Thu 12-Jul-12 23:34:51
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In reply to a post by TheHorseman:
I can still remember my first hard drive, it was 10MB (yes MB)
Apart from removable Winchesters on a couple of mini-computers, that's the same size as the first HDD I used, but it was on a work computer (an ACT Sirius) not one of my own.

It seemed a vast amount of space at the time crazy

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Moderator billford
(moderator) Fri 13-Jul-12 10:55:54
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...so upgrade to 16GB ordered smile
And the postie handed it to me at 10:30 this morning, twenty minutes later installed and all back up again!

Well done Crucial smile

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Standard User xela
(fountain of knowledge) Thu 26-Jul-12 14:21:17
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Update:

As previously stated I went for the 8GB upgrade from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005JRH9V2/ref=oh...

My memory usage, according to Activity Monitor, seemed to run at around 6GB with OS X 10.7 but that's jumped up to 7-8GB with 10.8. Everything feels a bit quicker so I'm quite happy with the upgrade. 16GB would have been overkill for my needs.
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