MacBook Pro :: Physical RAM Limit In MBP?

Dec 15, 2009

I'm planning to upgrade my 17" MPB soon (trying to hold on for Arrandale, but we'll see how the old one holds up). Not that it will make much difference in my decision, but does anyone know if the 8GB RAM limit in the current MBPs is due to the fact that the largest currently-available DIMMs that will fit in the MBP are 4GB each; or if it's due to a limitation in the way the computer/chipset addresses the memory? In other words, once someone develops an 8GB DIMM that will fit in the MBP's slots, will it be possible to upgrade to 12 or 16GB of RAM?

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MacBook Pro :: 4GB Physical Memory But 3.67GB Used

Jun 24, 2014

I have a 13-inch Macbook pro (Mid 2012) with 4GB memory. I was browsing around and discovered a table in the activity monitor stating the following;

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- Virtual Memory: 4.51GB

- Swap Use: 35.3 MB 

From reading other questions and the responses to them I have realized that Maverick takes up a lot of memory but I'm not quite sure why my swap used isn't zero. I don't have much on this Macbook and have bought it recently. Why is the Swap use not zero? Is it a bad thing that it's 35.3MB?  

The reason I was looking around was to figure out if my Macbook would be good to run downloaded games and such on; this is a shared laptop and that's what my brothers are interested in doing for the most part. Yes, we have a huge age gap. 

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Jul 30, 2009

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Sep 28, 2009

Not being a professional mac user I was asked to provide my physical mac address by the IT person at my work to enable me to get wifi. I can't seem to be able to do this on my G4 15" powerbook. I'm also not sure if I need to as I get full signal from the wifi in the place and I should only need the password? He says this is the only way he can give me the password..is he a bit behind the mac times!? I remember a 'run' command on the early iMacs.

This is what I was given;

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Aug 22, 2009

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Nov 2, 2009

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I can't see any warping in the surface of the trackpad and I don't own a Bluetooth mouse. 

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Jun 18, 2010

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May 27, 2012

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Jun 2, 2010

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it started off acting strange, then got to the point where only certain parts of the button would actually click, and now it doesn't register at all.

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Feb 16, 2009

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Apr 10, 2012

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May 30, 2012

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Jun 23, 2009

I just read a thread on Undercover and it reminded me of a question I wanted to ask earlier this week.

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Aug 9, 2010

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Jun 14, 2012

I read in another post here that the new all-flash memory is only good for about 100,000 saves, or 5 years for the average computer user. Is this really true?  It seems silly to promote using hardware that puts such a limit on the user..

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