Other World Computing (OWC) announced today through its in-house MaxRAM testing lab the immediate availability of high performance OWC PC3-10600 DDR3 1333MHz 8GB memory modules that provide 12GB and 16GB memory configurations for the new 2011 MacBook Pro models. Now, with these OWC Upgrades, new MacBook Pro model owners can add up to twice the factory maximum installed memory.
OWC Memory Upgrades Offer More Configuration Options:
• OWC 4GB DDR3 1333MHz Memory Module – $59.99 (or $46.99 after OWC offered factory memory trade-in rebate.) Replaces an existing 2GB module for 6GB of total memory.
Not available as factory memory upgrade option.
• OWC 8GB DDR3 1333MHz Memory Upgrade Kit (2 x 4GB) – $112.99 (or $86.99 after OWC offered factory memory trade-in rebate.) Replaces both existing 2GB modules for 8GB of total memory. Up to $113 less vs. factory 8GB option.
• OWC 12GB DDR3 1333MHz Memory Upgrade Kit (8GB + 4GB) – $879.99 (or $853.99 after OWC offered factory memory trade-in rebate.) Replaces both existing 2GB modules for 12GB of total memory. Not available as factory memory upgrade option.
• OWC 16GB DDR3 1333MHz Memory Upgrade Kit (2 x 8GB) – $1599.99 (or $1573.99 after OWC offered factory memory trade-in rebate.) Replaces both existing 2GB modules for 16GB of total memory. Not available as factory memory upgrade option.
More info here.
16GB RAM? WTF?
I would love the option to have 16 in my MBP. I’m constantly hitting the top of my 8GB and have contemplated going to an iMac to avoid the bottlenecks.
Not worth giving up portability though.
Rediculous price for the RAM bennifits. As much as more RAM is great the cost bennifit is not there.
how about that IOs 4.3 update?
Was released this AM. Is MDN sleeping????
for 12gb i would have to pimp my grandma
Ludicrous 12 & 16Gb price at almost 4X mark up. Only for the VERY well-heeled and desperate. 8Gb is plenty, and affordable.
Well-heeled, yes; desperate, not necessarily. This is for the Mac Pro, which is used by, well, pros. A metric sh!tload of RAM does come in handy for video editing and such like.
It’s way more computer than I need, that’s for sure.
I think you mean MacBook Pro? Not Mac Pro.
As I said earlier I’m constantly hitting the top of my 8 GB. 16 would give some nice breathing room and speed boosts.
Prices will come down in the next 6 months.
I use 12 gb in my i5 iMac. World of difference compared to 4 or 8 gb.
Silly Apple sends these machines out with 4gb. It’s like putting sandals on a sprinter before the start of a race. 🙁
I generally have 2 VMs running. They take up 5 to 6 GB of memory. I would really like to have a couple more VMs active but don’t have enough memory. I use the VMs for testing software and inter-system communications.
For me, 16 GB would be an outstanding upgrade…just not for the price. Throw in a 512 GB SSD and max out your laptop at, oh say, $6K to $7K or so? Nice system if you can afford it…just too rich for my blood.
Wow – how hot! They ought to market those chips as toasters and give away free bread with them…
The prices are ridiculous, but will come way down eventually. I remember (and it wasn’t that long ago) when an 8GB RAM upgrade was close to $300. Now it’s down to almost $100.
This is awesome, actually. Rule the world from your laptop!
@shadowfox
Benefit(s)
8 GB is enough for the average user. I would love 16 GB! But that price is seriously out of the realm of feasible. Of course it will come down, but how long? My bet is 6 months 😉
-Pi
🙂 I remember paying $1600 for 16 MB of RAM for my Mac II FX back in the day (1995-ish, IIRC). This is quite the deal by those standards.
Agreed. My first memory upgrade ever was for 2 Megs at $205 each = $410. 1988 for Mac SE. Brings back the memories, heh. Yeah, when apps running on one meg were considered large. HyperCard anyone? And HC still works every day for me. Presently trying to port over to iMac 27 i5. I know, drawing y’all off subject. : )
Yes, 12 or 16 GB is extremely pricey right now, but as others have pointed out, the prices will drop. It’s nice to know that the option to upgrade is there when/if the price point is right for you in the future.
I have a late-2006 MacBook Pro that still works great and runs everything I need, but I’m bummed that I can’t put more than 3 GB in it, no matter how much I’m willing to spend.
@ jecrawford
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In ’85 and ’86, the Japanese chipco’s were being accused of dumping their product in the US below cost. There was a shortage as a result. One night, at MacMontréal, a lady got up and offered, fresh from the airport, Megabyte RAM at $1000 each. There were takers.
I’m not surprised that there were some takers, but there couldn’t have been too many. At that time, the only Macs that could even take 1 MB of RAM were the “Lisa” and the Macintosh Plus (which didn’t come out until 1986.)
Also, $1000/MB sounds outrageous now, but it wasn’t as if she was asking three or four times the normal price. Even before the shortage, I remember paying over $300 to go from 128 kB to 640 kB in 1986 or so (computer was an AT&T PC6300.)