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acquacow on April 3, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad

You should be able to do a 2gig + 4gig stick combo. That's what I have in my 2008 Macbook pro, it runs 6GB just fine.

wazoox on April 4, 2025 [–]

It's a MacBook 5,1, not a MacBook pro. Its firmware only sees 3.5GB out of the 4GB installed, apparently it requires a BootROM upgrade to support more.

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