Max out the 17″ MacBook Pro with 8GB RAM, pay less
The Apple Store, both online and brick n’ mortar, is infamous for the outrageous prices it charges for retail memory upgrades. That said, if you are planning to max out the RAM in your Early 2009 17-inch MacBook Pro, you will probably want to get those DIMMs somewhere else. Here are a couple pointers.
Apple’s top of the line professional portable with its fast multicore processor, powerful nVidia hardware graphics acceleration and gloriously bright inch screen is truly a sight to use and even just to look at. Although the default 4GB (2 x 2GB) memory allotment of the 17-inch MacBook Pro will be ample for most, if you are a video or image editing professional, there’s no such thing as “enough” RAM.
Asking Apple to fill the two available slots with 4GB DIMMs will cost you $1,000, which is enough to buy an entry-level MacBook with a dollar to spare.
That said, here are memory prices from three representative memory vendors that have strong Mac experience and support:
Max your 17 inch MacBook Pro’s RAM:
• Other World Computing, $719.99
— 8.0GB(4.0GB + 4.0GB Kit) PC-8500 DDR3 1066MHz SO-DIMM 204 Pin• Trans International, $688.00
— 8GB Kit (2 x 4GB) 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM (PC-8500)• Crucial, $979.99
— 8GB Kit (4GB x 2) DDR3 PC-8500
The above vendors offer savings from 2 to over 30 percent versus the Apple Store. Still, price isn’t everything — warranty, return policy, reputation, performance, etc — when purchasing high-end memory, so do a little research of your own and make the right investment.
That said, Apple, thanks for getting this together for us, extending RAM capacity of your best of class professional portable. But, when it comes to actually filling up those slots, leave it to us—we’ve got people.
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