Hi Guys as some of you know I'm planning on getting a Mac Book Pro for uni to study music production. Therefore I'd be wanting a laptop that can handle quite intensive applications and VSTi/RTAS. I was wondering whether I'd be able to uprgade the mac book with these two items in order to make it better suited. 2x http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb-...0-(1066)-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-7-7-7-20-150v http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-...25-95-mm-sata-ii-3gb-s-5400rpm-8mb-cache-55ms would that be possible? I realise I'd have to reinstall the OS but my main qeury is, would the Mac OS recognise 16GB of RAM?
Yes, you can easily swap RAM and HDs. Doesn't invalidate your warranty either, as long as you don't balls it up.
As of Snow Leopard, OS X is 64-bit by default, so I'm almost certain it'll be fine with 16GB of RAM. From experience though, music production is more CPU-bound than RAM, as the effects you place on each channel have to be processed before they're fed through your audio board. You also shouldn't need to re-install the OS, you can create a backup of your OS using Time Machine (or do it the dirty way using Disk Utility and back up to a DMG) and then just restore back onto your new drive. I've upgraded my 160GB 5200rpm drive to a bog-standard 320GB 7200rpm with no issues so the 1TB WD should be fine
No, you won't be able to fit all those RAM modules. The reason ? http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb-...0-(1066)-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-7-7-7-20-150v is a kit of two 4GB RAM modules : http://www.corsair.com/memory-by-pr...-ddr3-sodimm-memory-kit-cmsa8gx3m2a106c7.html But with one kit (2x4GB), your macbook will run just fine. I have this kit in my Macbook 2011 13".
You can use carbon copier cloner to transfer to a new hard drive. Connect up the new drive using a usb caddie, I used this to transfer to my ssd. dead easy and copied over in about 20 minutes. Sent from Bittech Android app
As Cei said, it's really easy to double your memory without paying Apple prices. Unscrew the small back panel and slot it in!
What dave said - Carbon Copy Cloner is just the ticket to copy your drive. I did the same as him when I upgraded my MBP to an SSD and maxed out the memory to 8GB. If you want to know exactly what memory config / max addressable your particular MBP will have, take a trip to the Crucial site and use their memory advisor tool - either download their app to the machine when you get it, and let it do it's stuff, or select the correct MBP on the online system.
AFAIK no. The first desktop 8GB modules are showing up (8GB server memory modules with ECC were present for long time), but i have yet to see a 8GB SO-DIMM DDR3 memory module.
You can get 16GB for the 2011 15 and 17 inchers, the 13 really does only support 8GB http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/1333DDR3S16P/ At $879.99 it's a bit expensive though
The reason for that price is same as why 8GB DDR3 desktop modules are 170 euro per piece - low production volume so far, so the price is really high. It will come down in time.
