Macbook Pro ram - can you still upgrade it yourself?

[BatFastard]

As the topic says really - is this possible? I swear I read somewhere they stopped you from doing it but can't find anything to give me a straight answer.
Ta!

 

[Jay_A]

I can't in my 2012 Macbook Pro Retina, so would assume not

 

[welshname]

I can't in my 2012 Macbook Pro Retina, so would assume not:worried:

That soon in they stopped it?

Lucky I got a late 2011 model.

 

[BatFastard]

Gutted! £160 for the 16gb ram model is crazy!

 

[Jay_A]

Mines 8gb and manages ok running photoshop, lightroom etc. 16gb would be nice but not a show stopper

 

[Carlv8415]

I can't on my 2012 rMBP

 

[MicKPM]

You can't on any Retina MBP product. Same is true for the Mac Mini's from 2012 onward as it's all on the logic boards. I still find this possibly the most annoying thing about Apple ownership

 

[CrippsCorner]

Yup here's your RAM buddy, in yellow! Good luck changing that lol 😧

 

[MarcB]

I have a 13" MBP late 2011 and i want to upgrade from 4gb to 16gb of ram.
Can this be done ?

 

[.Joe]

I have a 13" MBP late 2011 and i want to upgrade from 4gb to 16gb of ram.
Can this be done ?

If it is the pre-retina model indeed it can,

Heres the 8GB kit:
http://www.dabs.com/products/crucia...ponents and Storage - Memory - Generic Memory

and heres the 16GB kit:
http://www.flexxmemory.co.uk/mac-dd...acbook-pros/?gclid=CNuHwaed1cECFYrHtAodlmQANQ

 

[MarcB]

If it is the pre-retina model indeed it can,

Heres the 8GB kit:
http://www.dabs.com/products/crucial-8gb--2-x-4gb--ddr3-1066mhz-pc3-8500-204pin-sodimm-cl7-mac-891G.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc product search&utm_campaign=Components and Storage - Memory - Generic Memory

and heres the 16GB kit:
http://www.flexxmemory.co.uk/mac-dd...acbook-pros/?gclid=CNuHwaed1cECFYrHtAodlmQANQ

Perfect, Been reading stuff on the apple support forums and it seems that going 16Gb and a SSD hard drive seems to be amazing so this is my plan.

 

[.Joe]

Perfect, Been reading stuff on the apple support forums and it seems that going 16Gb and a SSD hard drive seems to be amazing so this is my plan.

In my opinion it may be better to go with some of the fusion style drives available, gives you the speed of ssd and the capacity of a disk drive

 

[Darren S]

Honestly?
Come on Apple - that is just f**king disgusting. There's trying to grab more money at the initial purchase point - and then there's just taking the piss.

The MBP my girlfriend recently purchased is the 8GB. But I always thought about upgrading it to 16GB should she need it in the future. I can even understand (to an extent) about using propriety RAM. But to stop you from upgrading it altogether? That's fundamentally wrong.

D.

 

[Carlv8415]

I suppose having the ram directly soldered to the board instead of on a chip you eliminate a lot of bandwidth issues

 

[ChrisR]

In my opinion it may be better to go with some of the fusion style drives available, gives you the speed of ssd and the capacity of a disk drive

Thing is a 512Gb SSD can be had for £150 now, and terabyte drives aren't as ludicrous as they were. So personally if you're going to do it may as go full SSD

 

[.Joe]

Thing is a 512Gb SSD can be had for £150 now, and terabyte drives aren't as ludicrous as they were. So personally if you're going to do it may as go full SSD

I think this shows how out of the loop I am, last time I checked prices on an ssd they were ludicrous

 

[McGherkin]

Honestly?
Come on Apple - that is just f**king disgusting. There's trying to grab more money at the initial purchase point - and then there's just taking the piss.

You seem surprised?

 

[Darren S]

You seem surprised?

Lol - I guess I shouldn't be. Just seems even more of an insult when I upgraded an iMac's memory from 4 to 8GB, only yesterday. Yet on other areas of their product range - you can't upgrade?

Petty. Really petty.