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<blockquote data-quote="Brian jojade" data-source="post: 100077" data-attributes="member: 211">Re: Apple MacBook Pro - Antiglare vs RetinaApple officially only supports 8GB of RAM in the non-retina MacBook Pro line, although if you put 16GB, the machine does recognize that RAM in the machine.&nbsp; Generally, when Apple doesn&#039;t officially support the additional amount of RAM in machines, there is a reason.&nbsp; On older MacBooks, they officially limited the RAM to 3GB, although you could install 4GB of RAM in the machine and it would show up as being in there.&nbsp; The problem was that it could only address 3.5GB of the 4GB, or something like that, so to avoid confusion, they said it supported 3GB max.The other thing to consider is that higher density RAM can draw more power.&nbsp; While the system can address more RAM, the higher power draw may be out of spec with what the machine can provide, and the additional heat generated in the machine can cause problems.&nbsp; You may be fine, but if anything goes wrong, Apple can simply say it doesn&#039;t support that, go pound sand.P.S. if you ever have to send your machine in for warranty service, make sure you have original Apple RAM installed in it.&nbsp; If their service centers detect non Apple RAM installed, they will send it back and blame the RAM as the source of the problem, even if it&#039;s clearly and obviously not related.&nbsp; We&#039;ve had them send back machines with bad optical drives, but since it was third party RAM, that was the culprit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brian jojade, post: 100077, member: 211"] Re: Apple MacBook Pro - Antiglare vs Retina Apple officially only supports 8GB of RAM in the non-retina MacBook Pro line, although if you put 16GB, the machine does recognize that RAM in the machine. Generally, when Apple doesn't officially support the additional amount of RAM in machines, there is a reason. On older MacBooks, they officially limited the RAM to 3GB, although you could install 4GB of RAM in the machine and it would show up as being in there. The problem was that it could only address 3.5GB of the 4GB, or something like that, so to avoid confusion, they said it supported 3GB max. The other thing to consider is that higher density RAM can draw more power. While the system can address more RAM, the higher power draw may be out of spec with what the machine can provide, and the additional heat generated in the machine can cause problems. You may be fine, but if anything goes wrong, Apple can simply say it doesn't support that, go pound sand. P.S. if you ever have to send your machine in for warranty service, make sure you have original Apple RAM installed in it. If their service centers detect non Apple RAM installed, they will send it back and blame the RAM as the source of the problem, even if it's clearly and obviously not related. We've had them send back machines with bad optical drives, but since it was third party RAM, that was the culprit. [/QUOTE]

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