I have read in a lot of places that 8gb is the max but have also heard that some may have been able to get away with 16gb. As someone that grew up in an era where swap was to be avoided at all cost to maintain decent performance, this is hard choice to make, but I'm close to taking a leap of faith. Right now, I am running a total of 8gb of ram, however, I really need to run 16gb. I believe there is an EFI limitation in OS X Mountain Lion that will not allow the 2010 i5/i7 Macbook Pro's to be upgraded over. The type of RAM needed is DDR3 PC3-8500 1066. Unfortunately, this means for you the answer is no. 17' mid-2010 MacBook Pro models cannot use 16GB RAM. 15' mid-2010 MacBook Pro models cannot use 16GB RAM. To clarify this: 13' mid-2010 MacBook Pro models can actually use 16GB RAM.
#2010 macbook pro 16gb ram upgrade#
If you have a 2010 MacBook Pro Core2Duo (13'), then you are in luck and you can upgrade to 16GB RAM. You were probably aware of the first three reasons, but the last one often catches people out. I'm currently debating 16 GB vs 32 GB on a 16", and while initially I thought I'd for sure need 32 GB by now, given my current experience as well as the insane RAM / SSD speeds on the M1, I'm questioning whether that's actually the case. Any mid-2010 MacBook Pro i5 or i7 is limited to a maximum of 8GB RAM. Two 8GB PC3-8500 204 pin SODIMM DDR3 1066MHz Genuine CMS brand, CMS is one of the most trusted names in the Computer Memory industry and this product carries a Lifetime Warranty from CMS MAX MEMORY: 16GB SOCKETS 2 COMPATIBLE WITH: Apple MacBook Pro 'Core 2 Duo' 2.66 13' Mid-2010 Specs Identifiers: Mid-2010 13' - MC375LL/A - MacBookPro7,1 - A1278 - 2351. While I am using some swap, it's not that much, and even on the older, slower RAM and SSD, I still don't recall actually noticing any slowdowns due to swap. I'm currently running Intellij (running a Java/Spring based backend API server/project), VSCode (running a React/NextJs frontend server/project), Docker containers (MySQL DB, Postgres DB & auth/identity server, dummy smtp server), Postman and Firefox with 100+ tabs (lol) on a late 2013 15" rMBP with 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB SSD.
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