can you put 3gigs in a macbook?
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yes, you can.
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The Core Duo Macbook sold before the Core 2 Duo upgrade in late 2006 only supports up to 2GB or ram.
The Core 2 Duo Macbook both the first and slightly updated version that came in early 2007 support up to 3GB (1x1GB stick + 1x2GB stick of ram). -
But what happens if you put 4 GB of RAM in?
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I don't think it reads it? You could try if you really want to...but whether it does/doesn't blow up the fact is it won't read 4GB.
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Someone on MacRumors got their MacBook to read 4GB. It also tried addressing it, but resulted in Kernel Panics.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=327372&page=3&highlight=4GB -
I heard that if it's not the same amount of ram on both sticks the Core Duo effect would be gone?? Is that true??
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not dubble the bandwidth, it is known that 3 gigs is better then 2 gigs even if 2 gigs is running dual channel and the 3 gigs is not, it is only a small difference cause ram is so fast anyways.
dual channel can almost be related to a raid 0 -
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Thanks everyone. It looks like someone did some testing here.
http://eshop.macsales.com/Reviews/MacBook/Testing/Memory_Benchmarks
I guess you can put two sticks of 2gig RAM in the macbook and retain the dual-channel advantage but loose the extra gig or RAM. -
1GB (two 512MB SO-DIMMs) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300); two SO-DIMM slots support up to 2GB.
You can check the website http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html.
Macbook can support max 2G from apple.com
Max RAM for a Macbook
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by SGT Lindy, Jul 29, 2007.