Macbook 13.3 core 2 dou quesiton

Ok i see others asking about ram and they are really close to what i need to ask but not right on. I have a macbook 13.3 core2duo 2.0 with 1gig. Now on the apple site it alows u to add up to 4 gigs factory ram. but yet on the macbook how too part of the apple site it says core 2 duo 2.0 can only have 3 gigs. so whats the deal i want to buy ram but now im like ok well what is the limit. Thanks in advance

If you bought it before November first 3 gigs is the limit.
Only the new core 2 duo chips that have an 800 mhz frontside bus can address 4Gigs of memory.

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