Re: Memory Upgrade; Is It Worth While [Just My View]

2011-08-20 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Eric Gordon's comments were related to installing memory designed to run at a different buss speed. And, did we not just go first? :) Lynne On 20 Aug 2011, at 01:45, Eric Caron wrote: Hi Lynne and others, this report makes me want to consider again taking the chance and putting 8

Re: Memory Upgrade; Is It Worth While [Just My View]

2011-08-20 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Eric No, you're mistaken. They have a maximum of 8GB RAM for the Intel Core 2 Duo processor which mean all of them since about 2007/8 I believe. Lynne On 20 Aug 2011, at 14:56, Eric Caron wrote: On Aug 20, 2011, at 7:13 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: Hello Eric Gordon's

Re: Memory Upgrade; Is It Worth While [Just My View]

2011-08-20 Thread Eric Caron
On Aug 20, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: Hello Eric No, you're mistaken. They have a maximum of 8GB RAM for the Intel Core 2 Duo processor which mean all of them since about 2007/8 I believe. Lynne I may be mistaken in wondering if my White case can handle 8 GB

Re: Memory Upgrade; Is It Worth While [Just My View]

2011-08-20 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Eric OK, are you specifically talking about the MacBook, as opposed to the Pro? If that's the case then yes I think 4GB is indeed the limit. I was under the impression that you had a MBP, sorry about that. I just presumed you were generalising when you said MacBook. Lynne On 20 Aug

Re: Memory Upgrade; Is It Worth While [Just My View]

2011-08-20 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Eric, forgive me if I'm repeating this message, but I strongly believe your macbook6,1 can handle either 6 or 8 GB of RAM. IMHO Apple is no different from many other tech companies in being conservative with their RAM recommendations. It is often left up to third party vendors to push the

Re: Memory Upgrade; Is It Worth While [Just My View]

2011-08-20 Thread Gordon Smith
Hello Eric Gordon is laughingly saying that he'd never advise anybody to stick with playing it safe if it will work. :) But seriously if I were you I'd ask around. See what they say in some of the forums. Lynne On 20 Aug 2011, at 19:02, Eric Caron wrote: On Aug 20, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Mrs.

Re: Memory Upgrade; Is It Worth While [Just My View]

2011-08-20 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Eric, You wrote: Someone on this list, with a mac book, must be daring enough to give it a go! I'll wait to see what happens! Well, since you put it that way. grin. I had one of the first white macbooks, which I think was in late 2006 or early 2007. Apple's documented limit for that

Re: Memory Upgrade; Is It Worth While [Just My View]

2011-08-19 Thread Eric Caron
On Aug 18, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: Hello everybody Gordon has just finished upgrading his 2.26 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo (Mid 2009) MacBook Pro from 4 to 8GB of RAM, courtesy of the very reasonable memory prices at Crucial.com. So we put it to the test to see if