- #CRUCIAL 16GB RAM MACBOOK PRO MID 2012 HOW TO#
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#CRUCIAL 16GB RAM MACBOOK PRO MID 2012 HOW TO#
Swapping the drive is harder but still not very hard if you know how to do it or have a good manual. Of course, it's not as fast as the latest mac models but fast enough for everyday useĪdding more memory is super easy. It has 16GB of RAM (max amount for this model) and an SSD drive, which makes a big difference. I'm running Catalina on my Late 2012 Mac Mini w/o any problems.
#CRUCIAL 16GB RAM MACBOOK PRO MID 2012 INSTALL#
Maybe you can just find a Thunderbolt SSD drive and install your MacOS on that, it should be fast said: My Apple Hardware Test doesn’t run after doing that.Ģ.5. You need a couple torx screwdrivers, something non conductive to take out a ribbon cable, and an anti static wristband. I did an unauthorized modification easily it’s just SATA and easy to put in yourself.
#CRUCIAL 16GB RAM MACBOOK PRO MID 2012 UPGRADE#
2012 Mac Minis are currently not listed as Vintage, so you might be able to get an Apple Store/Authorized Service Provider to upgrade to an SSD though the apple one looks like 256GB. It takes up to 16GB but you can get 8GB pretty cheap there are only two slots so get them in a pairĢ. Flipping it over, twisting off the back, and putting in more RAM is needed immediately. I upgraded the RAM from 8GB to 16GB, but probably didn’t really need to.ġ.
I got it earlier this year and putting the SSD in it was the best thing I’ve done to it. My Mac Mini 2012 is actually running really great I have one partition on Mojave and another on Catalina, plus a third I don’t use on Mountain Lion. So, if the Macbook Pro has specs that are similar to my Mac Mini (Core i5 2.5GHz, 4 GB RAM, mechanical hard drive), then I cannot recommend updating at all.
produces a beachball for several seconds, and launching applications, even simple ones like "Settings", takes minutes. Every single mouse click, popup menu etc. With the last few updates, especially "Mojave", the Mac is essentially bricked - it is so slow that it is completely unusable. Unfortunately, I need to always run the very latest macOS and Xcode for app development, so there's no way I can't update.
#CRUCIAL 16GB RAM MACBOOK PRO MID 2012 UPDATE#
What I can say is that each successive macOS update made my Mac Mini (not Macbook Pro) 2012 increasingly slower.
#CRUCIAL 16GB RAM MACBOOK PRO MID 2012 32 BIT#
Ableton says Live 9 is "not fully compatible" with 10.14 it seems to work, but.)Ĭatalina is a big change in that 32 bit apps have been killed, so if you've got any legacy software you might want to hold said: Mojave wasn't a major change from High Sierra so most things that work with 10.13 should work with 10.14, however, in some cases there won't be guarantees (e.g. Note that with High Sierra Apple changed the underlying filesystem, so some apps (notably Apple's older Pro Apps Logic Pro 9, Final Cut Pro 7, etc.) don't work. What I would suggest is looking at the apps you need to run and see if there are issues with any of these newer OS versions. Definitely worth it for me, no more lags when opening the huge files from in iPhoto and Aperture (from my 36mp DSLR) and when concurrently running Windows software in Parellels 8. To be clear here: I have a late-2013 MPB, so performance will be different. Installed 16 GB of 1600MHz OWC RAM into my end 2011 15' MBP last night. And unlike running newer iOS versions on old hardware, I haven't seen a degradation in performance with newer OSs. I'd probably still be at 10.6.8 if I could, but I've been fine running what I need to run up to Sierra (10.12). I haven't seen a compelling feature in years. My MacBook is fully updated to OS X El Capitan.I've read on similar threads that downgrading to OS X Yosemite might help?Īnother thought I had is that I've read that some people only swap one of the RAM chips, so I would have 1 of my original 2gb Ram chips and one 8gb upgraded chip, so having a total of 10gb which would be much better than my original 2x 2gb Ram.To be honest, the only reason I upgrade my Mac is because I need to to run a certain application (usually something from Apple). I Have checked the system report and the new memory is being registered in the correct RAM slots, but it seems something somewhere else is going wrong. Now it sometimes restarts its elf even when im not using it, very annoying! It has only done this since I put the new RAM in. But then all of a sudden about 5 mins into surfing the web the screen went blank and it started to restart itself. I have just upgraded my mid 2012 MacBook Pro to 16gb using 2x 8gb ATech DDR3 12800 1600MHz and to start with everything was fine, booted up quickly etc.