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I’ve got a Mid-2012 Macbook Air that I changed out the SSD to 256Gb using the OWC Aura product. No problems at all – but it still only has 4Gb of ram and sucks it up pretty quickly now I have installed Sierra!
8gb was a preconfigured option on these models and from what I can tell the RAM is soldered in.
Has anyone upgraded one of these, and can you tell me how and using what RAM?
Thanks!
Phil in New Zealand
The iMac Mid-2010 supports DDR3 10666 (from the Apple support site)
The first link is to the correct RAM for that Front Side Bus (FSB) speed The second link is to a slightly quicker set of RAM, but runs on a lower FSB.
The differences between the two are characterised by the two notes above, the FSB speed and the clock timings.
In the first, the FSB speed is higher, but the timings for the RAM are slower. In the second, the slower FSB allows the RAM to work at slightly faster timings.
If you want to know about timings, a search for RAS CAS delay is a good starting point.
I have upgraded the RAM to 8GB for my MBP470. See the config below. No problem happened. Be noticed that, 470 only support 1066MHz DDR3 RAM. Do not use 1333MHz RAM. The 8GB RAM is from Sumsung.
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No answer, but I'm having the same problem. With the relative speed of SSD memory, which this model has,it would seem feasible to have an app that could set aside a bit of the drive into a "pseudo RAM". Maybe not as effective as pure RAM, but might overcome the barrier.
Anybody aware of anything like this?