Who is lying here ?

fresheire · 2012-07-14 15:03:53

Hey all, I have this tiny program called mactracker and it tells me this about the memory: Maximum Memory 32 GB (Actual) 16 GB (Apple) I also used my serial number on some website and there they say 8GB would be max. So how much ram will my mac take ? NVM I found it here

14-07-2012 03:03PM

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fresheire

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Hey all,

I have this tiny program called mactracker and it tells me this about the memory:

Maximum Memory 32 GB (Actual) 16 GB (Apple)

I also used my serial number on some website and there they say 8GB would be max.

So how much ram will my mac take ?

NVM I found it here

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#2 14-07-2012 03:13PM

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What Mac do you have?

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#3 14-07-2012 03:55PM

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Sad Professor wrote: »

What Mac do you have?

most recent i5 3.1ghz with hd 6970 1GB

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#4 14-07-2012 04:42PM

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iMac I assume.

It'll definitely take 16GB which is the official maximum. It might take up to 32GB as well, but you'd have confirm that first.

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#5 14-07-2012 10:19PM

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If it's an iMac it has 4 RAM slots so it would accept 8gb in each slot. Whether OSX will recognise it is another thing though.

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