![]() ![]() Chrome in particular improved greatly, and oddly I can view flash sites in chrome anyway. I spend time browsing the Internet on my machine and found uninstalling flash led to a marked improvement in speed and reduced the tendency of sites to hang. Am looking forward to the new macbooks (coming soon) as Lion appears to run a little slowly for me. I find now the CPU is generally the problem now. And upgrading to 8gb was fairly cheap (around £40). But it was reaching it's limit at the original 4gb install. I struggled to find the compatible module in the UK site using the memory tool they have, found it on the US site, then simply found the comparable module in the UK ![]() I did yes, bought the memory from Crucial (UK). #Mac pro 5.1 upgrades update#(resolves a graphics issue that may cause the internal display to flicker.) MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.8. (eliminates the noise made by the optical disk drive) MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.8. (but for some reason Apple still quote 4GB max)Īpple - Check your computer's EFI Boot ROM or SMC firmware version. The Apple official updates quote various reasons given below, but hidden in that was the ability to upgrade to larger 8GB ram from 4GB. Which seems to be updated by the EFI update. It seems to come down to a couple of things, as far as my research goes over the last couple of days, that it comes to knowing which model identifier, the BOOT ROM version & the SMC Is yours a 15" ? which model identifier ? I saw on MacTracker it could do 8GB, but didnt know about the EFI firmware issue, but now all is cleared up. You must be running Snow Leopardor later to address 8GB on these systems, and our testing was done with 10.6.6, which is the earliest version we’re currently supporting for this. Once you have ensured that the Boot ROM is the correct version, make sure your Operating System is updated to OSX 10.6.6. #Mac pro 5.1 upgrades install#If your Boot ROM version does not match the numbers above, download the appropriate firmware updater for your model machine and install according to the instructions: If you have this update installed, you’re already able to install the 8GB without any problems and don’t need to perform further updates to install more RAM. If you have installed that update, your Boot ROM version will be 06. I found this a little while laterĮFI Firmware Update 2.8 was released on Februfor the Later 2008 MacBook Pro. ![]()
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