I bought a Macbook Pro with Retina display (4GB RAM, 128GB SSD) in April.
It keeps freezing and about every 3 days, and I need to upgrade the RAM.
Am I able to upgrade the RAM on this machine to 8GB or 16GB?
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While I agree with others here that an SSD will give your MacBook Pro a great speed boost, the problem with a 128GB SSD is that it's probably smaller in capacity than your currently installed hard disk. If that's the case and you'll need to have a hard disk in the optical bay as well, the SSD solution is less attractive if you need the optical drive.
The problem with storage solutions that are too small is that they become less effective (fast) as you fill them close to their capacity. This is true of both hard disks and SSDs.
So, best to ask the questions:
How big is my installed hard disk and how much of it am I using, how much more of it will I be using in the next year?
Do I need the optical drive built into my MacBook Pro or could I move my current hard disk into that bay with an adapter.
If you can fit your MacBook Pro's current installed stuff into 64GB (unlikely but possible) then a 128GB SSD might work out well, even without the use of a hard disk for additional storage.
(Note: The original post said "No", which was right at the time it was written, but as of February 15th, 2014, the OWC page says that you can install up to 16GB of RAM on mid 2010 MacBooks (2.4GHz).)
It Depends.
OWC continously tests the max RAM which apple computers support - which is usually more than Apple officially states.
The mid-2010 MBP is size dependent. The 13" will support 16GB. The 15" and the 17" will not.
The following table shows that the max RAM supported by your Macbook Pro based off size (mid 2010) is 16GB (officially 8GB).
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Best Answer
No, you cannot add more RAM.
Open up Activity monitor, located in the Utilities folder of the Applications folder (or just search using Spotlight)
/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor
Go to the memory tab and check out the memory pressure and swap used. If the memory pressure is too high (yellow/red graph) you can figure out which applications are using the most memory by going to the View menu and choosing Columns -> Real Memory. Sort applications by the newly added Real Memory column and you will see which applications/processes are taking the most memory and slowing/freezing your computer.