This is because, while you can install more than 4gb of ram in the
newer Macbooks, they only seem to actually take advantage of the first
4gb. While the motherboard appears to support more than that, and
indeed will report more than 4gb if you install more, OS X doesn't
seem to take advantage of it. This is interesting, as OS X does
support more than 8gb of ram natively. I'd guess it's an issue with
that motherboard and/or the os x chipset drivers for it. Apparently
some of the newer macbooks, if you go higher than 6gb, will become
unstable even though the ram will be recognized properly.
A way to confirm this, for anyone who has a new Macbook, would be to
install another UNIX on it, such as FreeBSD or Linux natively and see
if the ram is taken advantage of on that operating system. I can't try
this, as my Macbook is a previous generation.
On Nov 4, 2008, at 22:01, Doug Lawlor wrote:
On 11/4/2008 1:19 AM, Esther wrote:
And I might as well correct the "6 MB" maximum memory to "6 GB" --
a Freudian slip there.
It's interesting when you go to configure a new MacBook on the apple
store web site you can only configure up to a maxumum of four GB of
RAM. This may have changed since I looked at this last week.
Doug
