Macbook RAM upgrade tutorial

How to upgrade the RAM in your Macbook

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• Apple
• Macbook
• Black
• RAM
• upgdrade
• swap
• change
• test
• OS-X
• OSX

[BruceLeeRock25]

i have use my macbook for a week or so. so if i change the memory will I lose all the data???

[fiveightandten]

Absolutely not. Changing the RAM will have no affect on the data stored on the hard drive.

[BruceLeeRock25]

then what the memory for??

[fiveightandten]

If you picture your computer as an office you work in; the hard drive would be like a file cabinet where you keep documents for long term storage. Memory would be like the top of your desk, where you place papers you're currently working on.

The larger your desk is, the more papers you can be working on at once, and the less you'll have to get up to walk over to the file cabinet to pull things out of it.

Upgrading to a bigger desk doesn't affect things stored in your file cabinet. You dig?

[fiveightandten]

It's dielectric material, there to keep the connections from corroding due to moisture. No need to worry about it.

[TIMxIRISH]

Maybe you didn't originally think adding another one of these videos to youtube was neccisary, but this video was presented very clean and deserved 5 stars. You tell your viewers exactly what to do, and what not to do, as well as just keeping things to the point.

I'm a very tech savy person, so I probably didn't need the tutorial, but this video was nice to have, as I have never checked where exacly the RAM resides. It was the first video I saw on google anyway ;).

Great job.

[fiveightandten]

TIMxIRISH- Thanks for the comment. It's appreciated, and nice to hear that this video, just possibly, wasn't just adding in to the pile, so to speak. ;)

[irish420Hitman]

lol that was such a dope analogy

[OGNicoya]

I didn't know there was a black MacBook

[Coxfame]

say bro, is there any way to test my memory?

[GrizzlyDemon]

@kingnewbs Iv'e seen a lot of mid 2007 Black/White Macbooks being successfully upgraded to 4gb RAM.

[kingnewbs]

This is a great tutorial, but it took me a couple tries to get the RAM seated properly. You really have to jam it in there. Hard. By which I mean firmly, not like with a hammer or anything. I ended up standing the macbook on it's edge so I could use downward pressure, and was able to get a nice satisfying 'THUNK' as they both went in about half a centimeter past the lip of the opening.

[kingnewbs]

@Blarg950 Depends on how old your macbook is. Pre-2008 macbooks only take a max of 2GB. Plus a 32-bit system won't recognize 4GB anyway. Check with the apple site if you're unsure.

[Blarg950]

It has two slots, so couldn't you put 2 x 2 GB RAM sticks inside? I bet theres a ton of stability issues though, but could it be done and would the Mac recognise the new RAM?

[Dragon555]

@BruceLeeRock25 I think you are confusing RAM and the hard drive :)

[efealatan]

if i upgrade my ram will the computer just work the same as before i mean will i have to install anything again or dosomething???

thanks