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I received the 3GB kit overnight from OWC, they were the only source I found that pointed out the flaw in the Macbook max RAM specs, and they were right.

Installation was a snap, the Macbook immediately recognized all 3GB, and I ran MEMTEST for 4 hours in single-user mode to stress-test the ram.

All is well.

Thanks for the info. My 3GB are on the way. Thanks OWC.

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So has anyone tried 4GB in a Macbook Pro? Is it possible?

...but I bet 3G is the max.

The only reason I say that (since I haven't seen any white paper) is that the iMac is listed as having a 3G limit (geeeze, I wish that would be changed to 4G). It just seems pretty unlikely that the MacBook could see more RAM than an iMac.

Of course the iMac could have a Super Secret limit above 3G.

So, pc, do you have a sense as to how much that extra G helps?

P.S. I hate you.

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Technically the limit is slightly over 3GB. I believe something like 3.25GB. It just isn't worth buying another 2GB chip and only being able to gain another 256mb over a 1GB chip.

RAMd@d: "P.S. I hate you." Poor Papercup.

It's hilarious how this undertone of jealous resentment is in every $109 MacBook post. I just paid $990 more dollars for a MacBook (this morning) than papercup so I guess I can relate...

3GB is the max for any Core2Duo machine. Trust me.

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Good Luck!
Jamie Dresser
Other World Computing

Any of the Macs with the Core 2 Duo will go to 3.0GB no problem. Core Duo models, that preceded the C2D upgrades last year, are limited to 2.0GB.

And Apple took the high road with the 3.0GB limit on the C2Ds.... The Core 2 Duo system bus architecture, in its current design, has address apace available to allow about 3.3GBs total memory after reserves for all the other system functions. The PC crowd of HP, Dell, etc - those systems have the same limitation, but those guys have been just thrilled to sell people to 4.0GB installed with the fine print showing that extra $$$ between 3GB and 4GB is really only getting them to 3.3GB.

As to why Apple put the 2GB limit on the MacBook... The pairs thing was their visible claim.... And in a newsletter I did a few months ago, the testing was specifically set up to SUPPORT APPLE... I figures that the need for matched memory modules was to do with the 64MB of shared VRAM... that without the full 128bit interleaved addressing there'd be a hit to the video performance. But that was highly marginal... and no effect for Quick time playback, not even with H.264 High Definition.

All of that said - our current test series online was set up originally to show why Apple had the pair requirement on the GMA950 video equipped Mac models. We came back telling people instead it was A-OK to upgrade one module at a time, as budget allowed. Memory cost a lot more back then.... hard to believe we offer our 2.0GB modules today for LESS than a 1.0GB module was earlier this year! Anyway.....

We're going to be doing a couple new tests with application set ups that actually really thrive having more available memory - like one with Parallels for example... Go one step further with the 3.0GB support deal.

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Thanks for the info, fellas.

It's hilarious how this undertone of jealous resentment is in every $109 MacBook post.

True, I'm more than a little jealous, but I've got to admire the chops of somebody who got in under the wire and made a clean getaway.

I'd like to know how many of those Steal Deal MacBooks got away from Apple.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.