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Blaine
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 Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 1:17 am Post subject: Max memory for 2009 Mac mini? |
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| I'm sure this has been covered before, but what's the max unsupported memory for a 2009 Mac mini? Is it 8GB or 16GB before it actually starts doing some harm to performance. I just picked up a used one up on Craigslist a couple days ago. I kinda remember reading something about it a while back. |
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rahuljat
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:28 am Post subject: Re: Max memory for 2009 Mac mini? |
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| Blaine wrote: | | I'm sure this has been covered before, but what's the max unsupported memory for a 2009 Mac mini? Is it 8GB or 16GB before it actually starts doing some harm to performance. I just picked up a used one up on Craigslist a couple days ago. I kinda remember reading something about it a while back. |
Anyone? I am interested to know the max (un supported) memory for macmini 2009 as well. We know the officially supported max is 4gb http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4223
Edit: Someone confirmed running 8GB here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3816642?start=0&tstart=0 |
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mooblie
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:07 am Post subject: |
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I can confirm 8GB works OK, but I've never tried 16GB.
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macmanmacman
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:28 am Post subject: |
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Wow 16 i don't know i thought the 2009 mini maxed out at 8 gig's correct me if i am wrong here people i thought it supported.
2 gig's
4 gig's
and 8 gig's
i dont know about 16 gig's |
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Blaine
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:46 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the info mooblie. I'm going to go with 8GB then. I might try selling this one and getting one of the new ones around Christmas though. These things just rock for VMs. |
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geeji
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:47 am Post subject: |
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2x4GB should work.
Note that you may first need to upgrade to the latest Mac Mini firmware if you have one of the early Mac Mini 2009 (mine is : MM31.00AD.B00 ; SMC : 1.35f1).
Making the Mac Mini recognize the 4GB SIMMs may also be a bit tricky : read Carl V. post which worked for me. |
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