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To try them all, download MacKeeper, and give it a go. And it’s just one of MacKeeper’s many great features. If you only occasionally need more RAM, this can save you time and money, compared to buying more memory. Open MacKeeper, and select Memory Cleaner from the sidebar.Instead of adding more RAM to your Mac, how about using what you’ve got more efficiently? You can do that easily with MacKeeper’s Memory Cleaner feature. In most cases, all you’ll need is a screwdriver and a bit of patience. So for this guide, we’ll be sticking to Macs that can have RAM upgrades without soldering. Although some brave people have managed to change soldered RAM, it’s not recommended, and it’s certainly beyond the scope of this article. With the latest M1 Macs, all MacBook Airs and some newer Intel MacBooks, it’s practically impossible, because the memory is soldered to the motherboard. It’s become more and more difficult to do Mac RAM upgrades. Things have changed a lot over the years. That gave you access to the memory slots. You just popped open a covering or, with some older Apple laptops, lifted up the keyboard. With older Macs, changing out the RAM was simple. It’s just one of a few components that affect the speed of your Mac, but it’s worth upgrading it if you can.īut that’s a pretty big ‘if’. My MacBook is fully updated to OS X El Capitan.I've read on similar threads that downgrading to OS X Yosemite might help?Īnother thought I had is that I've read that some people only swap one of the RAM chips, so I would have 1 of my original 2gb Ram chips and one 8gb upgraded chip, so having a total of 10gb which would be much better than my original 2x 2gb Ram.Installing extra RAM (random access memory) in your Mac can be a quick, easy way to give it a speed boost. I Have checked the system report and the new memory is being registered in the correct RAM slots, but it seems something somewhere else is going wrong. Now it sometimes restarts its elf even when im not using it, very annoying!

It has only done this since I put the new RAM in. But then all of a sudden about 5 mins into surfing the web the screen went blank and it started to restart itself. I have just upgraded my mid 2012 MacBook Pro to 16gb using 2x 8gb ATech DDR3 12800 1600MHz and to start with everything was fine, booted up quickly etc.