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    New MBP RAM supports

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by awes1003, Jun 14, 2007.

  1. awes1003

    awes1003 Notebook Guru

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    I have a few questions about RAM on the new MBP: 1. What 2gb sticks are supported by the MBP? 2. Will the new MBP offer support for RAM clocked at 800 mhz?
     
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    Nicholie Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    It should support any DDR2 notebook RAM you can put into it, I havn't tried that out just yet.

    But it definitly should support PC2-6400 at 800mhz, to make good use of the Santa Rosa chip.
     
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    awes1003 Notebook Guru

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    alright thanks for the reply I was just thinking that in the future if I want to game (Starcraft 2, way future) a way to boost performance would be to add more RAM due to the turbo cache ability on the NVIDIA chip, also I already am utilizing most of my RAM (2 GB) with parallels :/. I was not really sure if apple put stringent requirements on the RAM you had to put in, because it seems like they are real particular about their hardware (part of why the systems run so well).
     
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    I think that problem was de-bunked with the move to Intel chips. The PowerPC architecture read RAM differently or something... anywho, I've heard nothing saying you had to use special RAM for the new Mac's.
     
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