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Can MacBook Pro support 32 GB Ram!

Hi All,

I was wondering if MacBook Pro support RAM upto 32 GB as of now. If not is anybody aware of Apples plan of 32GB Pro.

I wanted to buy Pro but keeping it on hold so that I can take an informed decision as I want to go with the highest RAM possible. That is something which will help me in my work.

Thanks to you all.

Best Regards,

Joy

Heck, Apple doesn't want us to put 16GB on the regulars, much less 32! And that's this year's crop. But anyway, we can only hope, cause speculating will only get you booted from these forums.

Can't help wondering, what do you need 32GB especially in a portable for?

Heck, Apple doesn't want us to put 16GB on the regulars, much less 32! And that's this year's crop. But anyway, we can only hope, cause speculating will only get you booted from these forums.

Can't help wondering, what do you need 32GB especially in a portable for?

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

There are two point for your query.

- I do boot up multiple Virtual Machine which runs multiple servers. Till today I shut down one and bring up other one.

- 2 Yrs back I bought one 8GB RAM machine which was the latest, now I am seeing its value deminishes as the memory requirement is going up exponentially every passing year. So, after 2 years I dont want to spend again for another laptop.

Again thanks for your response.

Regards,

Joy

The projected lifecycle of a Mac is 3 years, which corresponds to the full AppleCare coverage. And thus far by that time the advances in everything computer related are such that the computer does feel dated. So if you need cutting edge computing power, that's a reasonable planning horizon unless you've money to burn. Since the 2011 models 16GB have worked flawlessly provided you used the right speed (1333 MHz in 2011, 1600MHz in 2012) and the correct CAS timing. But officially that is unsupported except on the highest end Retina (that mysteriously has exactly the same CPU as the other unsupported models).

Beware that these portables are just that, not server-grade computers. Pushing them to the edge or beyond the envelope will cause them to fail, usually due to thermal issues. A Mac Pro desktop tower has much greater possibilities for such kind of usage: at the highest end you can officially go to 12 3.06GHz cores, 64GB RAM and 8TB HDD. Unofficially, probably much more.

Everyone seems to be overlooking the fact that single 16 GB SODIMM modules do not exist, at least not yet anyway. The prevailing theory is that they probabaly won't be available until the next generation of Intel's CPU architecture, codename Haswell, and/or until the adoption of a DDR4 standard. We're talking 2014 at the earliest for a starting point. Remember, 8 GB modules have been available for a couple years, but only very recently have they become affordable.

Also, 16 GB of DDR3-1600 will work fine in a 2011 MacBook Pro.

Hello joy,

I too have been frustrated by this predicament.

I'm an it consultant and have the need to run at least 8 virtual machines at the same time(I'm ignoring the comments about why you need that much memory though - that always frustrates me on boards like this).

I run VMware fusion and have windows 2012 servers with 1gb ram and one processor and I would love to assign MORE RAM! The only way I've been able to get them running (with 16gb ram) was to replace my hard drive with an ssd(I've even taken out the DVD to raid 0 my drives but that does come with other problems so be aware).

I yearn for he day this happens too, until then I'll have to stick with my current MBP (which is a shame as I'm away in the usa and could have picked one up cheaper than the uk) or move to windows laptops.

Here's hoping,

Bill5ter

They are here... 

https://www.anandtech.com/show/7742/im-intelligent-memory-to-release-16gb-unregis tered-ddr3-modules

Now if only OWC would release the goodies! 

Yes I run 16 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM in my late 2011 17"  MBP w/out issues. 

More details:  https://www.intelligentmemory.com/dram-modules/ddr3-so-dimm/

Eric.1776, did you get this working, or did you run into problem caused by lack of support from Intel mentioned in your first link?

FWIW, I've been running 16GB for a couple of years without any problems. I think the fans might work a bit more when I'm running multiple VMs, but that's likely just the CPUes.

I too am interested as to whether anyone has gotten 32GB working on a late 2011 Macbook?  I'm in the same predicament....

Has anyone revisited this question with Crucial's (newish) RAM?

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-16GBx2-PC3L-12800-SODIMM-CT2KIT204864BF160B/dp/B01 1ISG132/

Someone from Crucial has left a comment indicating it would probably not work, but it does not sound like it has been tested.

I just tried that Crucial 32GB kit in a Late 2011 15" MBP w/ i7-2760QM as well as Mid 2012 15" MBP w/ i7-3720QM and neither would post (they work fine with 16GB kit though). I was really hoping they can take 32GB but even though processor supports 32GB, it may be system firmware related but most likely processor only supports it across 4 memory banks and not 2 (for instance in case of Dell Precision 17" laptops). So pretty much I can confirm that no, you can't have 32GB at least in 15" MBP laptops.

I can confirm the same.

2 x 16 GB installed but only 16GB registering.

bill5ter wrote:

 

Hello joy,

 

I too have been frustrated by this predicament.

 

I'm an it consultant and have the need to run at least 8 virtual machines at the same time(I'm ignoring the comments about why you need that much memory though - that always frustrates me on boards like this).

 

I run VMware fusion and have windows 2012 servers with 1gb ram and one processor and I would love to assign MORE RAM! The only way I've been able to get them running (with 16gb ram) was to replace my hard drive with an ssd(I've even taken out the DVD to raid 0 my drives but that does come with other problems so be aware).

 

I yearn for he day this happens too, until then I'll have to stick with my current MBP (which is a shame as I'm away in the usa and could have picked one up cheaper than the uk) or move to windows laptops.

 

Here's hoping,

 

Bill5ter

You are using the wrong tool for the job, similar to using a hand shovel to dig a canal. Get the proper tool to meet your high-memory requirements rather than trying to use an inappropriate tool. As you are finding out it is difficult to cut down a 100 ft Douglas Fir tree with a coping saw.

MacBook Pros are good for enterprise software development that involves working on UNIX/Linux system (Since OSX is Darwin UNIX)

I, personally, would benefit from 32 gigs, or even 64 gigs, of RAM in a MacBook because it allows me to stand up mini instances of services on my laptop to test against while I'm developing.  It also gives me more options for how I can run my code locally (I can work on a larger set of data or run more instances of a service/application simultaneously).

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