Jon Gilbert Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 I have two 13" MBPs, one from 2010 and one from mid 2012, if I upgrade the new one to 16gb, can I put my 2x4gb DRAM modules in the old one? The specs are very similar, except for the voltage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studiomprd Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 JG: " The specs are very similar, except for the voltage. " you are teasing me, right..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gilbert Posted June 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Nope. There is a 0.15V difference between the two. Is that something to worry about? Or within acceptable tolerances? If you don't know, as I'm guessing you don't, stick your hat up your arse and do something more useful with your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gilbert Posted June 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Sorry, forgot to add a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Farrell Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 It should work. According to the specs of DDR3L, it should run at the higher voltage if placed in a DDR3 slot. But you can't know for sure until you try it. It won't hurt anything. If you experience kernel panics or anything weird, just switch back to the original RAM. After installing the RAM, I'd also recommend running something like memtest86 to check for any errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gilbert Posted June 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Thank you Patrick, I'll give it a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Youngman Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Check out OWC at Macsales.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze Frias Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 One note: You may not be able to upgrade your laptop to 16GB. I believe the maximum you can upgrade your RAM to on these laptops is 8GB. http://support.apple.com/kb/sp649 http://support.apple.com/kb/SP694 According to this, the 2010 model supports up to 8GB DDR3 SDRAM, so it should work. http://support.apple.com/kb/SP583?viewlocale=en_US Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gilbert Posted June 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Jose, my mid 2012 MBP definitely can be upgraded to 16gb, thanks for the second link though. I'll check that out Will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Farrell Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 As a side note, your 2010 supports up to 16GB as well, in spite of what Apple specs say, as long as you have the latest EFI firmware. Just in case you get upgrade happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordi Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Apple frequently under-rates the hardware for memory limits, for reasons that escape logic. OWC at Macsales.com will always have the full story about what your computer can handle. 16gb is certainly possible, I have 3 different Macbook Pro unibody laptops from 2010-2013 all running with a full boat of memory. You cannot ever have too much available memory. OWC also sells it for an amazing price, so there isn't any reason NOT to get the full 16gb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gilbert Posted June 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Patrick, I missed your last message, thanks a lot! And thanks to you too Geordi, I haven't done the RAM yet, I put in an SSD as my primary drive this week, that has made things a lot faster, I'll do the RAM next time I have nothing else to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze Frias Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Apple frequently under-rates the hardware for memory limits, for reasons that escape logic. OWC at Macsales.com will always have the full story about what your computer can handle. 16gb is certainly possible, I have 3 different Macbook Pro unibody laptops from 2010-2013 all running with a full boat of memory. You cannot ever have too much available memory. OWC also sells it for an amazing price, so there isn't any reason NOT to get the full 16gb. This is good to know. I had "maxed" out my RAM, thinking that the rated 8GB was the actual max. I will now look into upgrading to 16GB instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeheel Posted July 6, 2014 Report Share Posted July 6, 2014 The only issue with 16 Gigs of Ram is that it will save the entire contents of that memory to your boot drive upon shutdown. Not so much of a problem now, with larger cheaper SSDs, but when my boot drive was a 90 gig SSD it was a pretty substantial chunk of my hard drive and very puzzling to figure out where all that hard drive space had gone... Cheers, Brent Calkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Anderson Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 ditto Brent, good thing to mention. I used to work for Apple and I believe everything here sounds good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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