Can i upgrade to 16gb on macbook pro 2,3ghz i5 early 2011

can i upgrade to 16gb on macbook pro 2,3ghz i5 early 2011

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Upgrade Graphics card in MacBook Pro 15" 2.2GHz Early 2011

Hi,
I'm new to the forums so please don't comment saying that this has already been posted.
Anyway, I Have a MacBook Pro 15" 2.2GHz Early 2011 and would like to play games using Dolphin. I have been using Dolphin for about 3 months but I have to scale my resolution down to 720p for it to run smoothly. So I was wondering if I could upgrade my graphics card to something that could support this on a 1440 by 900 or at least a 1280 by 800.
Edit: Due do other answers, I now realise that it is not possible to change the graphics card but is there any other way of making it fast enough.
Thanks again.
Thanks in advance,
Aaron Leanage
//Message was edited by: Aaron Leanage

Hi Aaron, Two kinds of people in the world, Tool users and tool builders. In this case, the prior responses to the question presume to know you, they are in a context that stereotype the entire reading audience as only able to consume a shrink wrapped utter non tech end user answer.
Responses fail to ask before they answer follow up questions. They fail to set any boundaries of what you or the audience would consider acceptable and worse pass off (with scorn for your asking it) your question as either foolish or as factually materially not technologically possible.
When in reality, it’s just is not your question which is in error, it appears to be the experience of or the presuming of the posters which have limited the material factual discussion of options.
No one asked you if your goal was to get it done with a technicians help or to purchase a completed finished end user installable bits and make it work yourself. No one asked if you had some, none, extensive or access to technicians who do soldering.
The three respondent’s are likely correct in guessing, most people (in general) can't go buy and solder if their lives depended on it. However what the posters did, almost appears intended to confuse or conflate the experience with soldering with it with not being possible, rational, reasonable or desirable.
I don’t know you or the other posters, but I value the question and you more than to dismiss it by answering conveniently based on my assumptions about you.
So out of the box thinking is required, to counter the dismissive one liners .."its soldered in, suck it up and buy new".
Please consider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_evolution
Soldering irons have been around for over 4,000 years. Up until the late 1800s they were all heated by open flame or burning coals.
1894
The American Electrical Heater Company of Detroit Michigan begins manufacturing electric soldering irons. Shortly after the American Beauty® line of soldering irons appears.
1921
Ernst Sachs (Germany) claims to have developed the first electric soldering iron for industry (see note below) and ERSA begins commercial production of a 200 watt electric soldering iron. [More Details]
Note: I have found an advertisement from 1898 in an issue of "The Electrical Engineer" Vol. XXIV showing a drawing and description of the American Electrical Heater Company's electric soldering iron which pre dates Ernst Sachs electric soldering iron by 23 years.
1926
In December of 1926 William Alferink files for a U.S. patent for a "Combined Holder and Automatic Circuit Breaker for Electric Soldering Irons" (first soldering station?). On July third, 1928 the patent is granted.
1946
Carl E. Weller is granted a patent for his instant heat soldering gun and starts production as the Weller Manufacturing Company in Easton Pennsylvania where he manufactures the first "Speedy Iron" instant heat soldering gun.
1949
The American Beauty "Temperature Regulating Stands" are sold to control the temperature of electric soldering irons.
1951
WEN Products is founded and manufacturers their own instant heat soldering iron.
1954
Weller sues WEN Products over soldering gun patent infringement.
Court finds in Weller's favor. [More Details]
1960
Weller is granted a patent for the "Magnastat" soldering iron which controls the iron's temperature through the use of a temperature sensitive magnetic tip.
1967
Weller begins manufacturing it's W-TCP soldering station with a "Magnastat" iron.
1970
Weller Manufacturing Company is sold to Cooper Industries.
Reference: http://www.stevenjohnson.com/soldering/history.htm
So the actual fundamental concern is not soldering, soldering has been around for a while, finding a technician is not the issue. Then the issue would seem to me to be, "will a card fit"?
If the card fits, it can be soldered in. That’s the bottom line. An expert might take an hour to solder it, An expert might charge $90 - $250 an hour. A person with more than a little experience will appear as an expert to you. Ask for and check references, BBB to reduce your learning curve. Establish a maximum price, Establish criteria with your expert that make it acceptable to agree in advance in writing to only pay a fixed max amount on successful completion.
Does anyone have a reference of it being done?
Does anyone know a contact company that would take the job?
Does anyone know specific parts (have a URL?) that should or are known to work?
Milestones
– Feasibility confirmation
– Locate engineering soldering expertise
– Return here and post your experience.
Notes:
If Apple had Nvidia reduce or reshape the display card specifically to fit the MacBook Pro you’re out of luck however if the MBP card was not customized by Apple then any modern mobile Nvidia board may work if you can find a tech to solder it in.
If Apple changed the already small mobile card form to custom fit the MBP then you’re going to have no luck.
Glad to clear that up for everyone with some material relevant facts for the adults
shldr2thewheel wrote:
the graphics card is not upgradeable.
Kappy wrote:
You cannot upgrade the CPU or GPU on laptops. They are soldered to the motherboard.
Regardless of your being new here, this topic has been discussed before. You might have searched before posting.
Allan Eckert wrote:
If you would have read the threads posted on the right under the heading More Like This, you would have discovered that it has already been posted here.
Allan

Can i upgrade to 16gb on macbook pro 13 late 2011?

hello, i have a macbook 13 inch late 2011, 2.8 ghz and i want to upgrade from 4gb to 16gb… is it possible? i want to add 8g + 4g cards

I too have a MBP 13" late 2011. I was going to upgrade the RAM to 8 GB. I just realized I ordered 1xcard of 8GB instead of 2xcards of 4 each. I was going to return it and order 2x4GB but the seller: Quantum Technology is telling me I can still use the 8GB I ordered with the existing 2GB card that came with the MBP. They are telling me its not optimized but the MBP will recognize all 10 GB and the extra 2GB will make up for it. Is that so?
Would it be better to use 10GB (made up of 2 and 8 BG) or replace it for a total of 8GB made up of 4+4?
Lastely: Does anybody know if Quantum Technology is reputable?
I'm new to the Mac and really appreciate your input! Thanks!

HT201343 Can I upgrade my mid 2010 macbook pro to use airplay?

Can I upgrade my mid 2010 macbook pro to use airplay?

Unfortunately, no you can't.
Just to be clear. Your computer will support AirPlay it's just AirPlay Mirroring that requires newer hardware.
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Hello, i just installed a vertex 2e 90gb ssd in my macbook pro 13" (8.1 early 2011). But when i do a disk speed test i only get 125 mb/s write speed and 146 mb/s read speed.

Hello, i just installed a vertex 2e 90gb ssd in my macbook pro 13" (8.1 early 2011). But when i do a disk speed test i only get 125 mb/s write speed and 146 mb/s read speed. Thats under 50% of what i should get. The disk have firmware 1.35 and 3 gb/s linkspeed when i check in systemreport.
Anyone know why i get so low speed from my ssd?

Speak to the manufacturer. They did the bench tests.

Kann man 16 GB RAM im MacBook Pro 13 Zoll von Early 2011 verwenden?

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Why Apple store can't Upgrade the storage for Macbook Pro Retina after sale?

Hello everyone
I am disappointed from apple store .
One month ago i bought the new MacBook Pro Retina with storage 256 GB and now i would like to upgrade the storage to 768 GB as mentioned in there website where you can configure the storage higher,but unfortunately i went to apple store to upgrade,but they refused and they said we only upgrade within the order in the beggining before you buy it !!!!!!!!
even if i go to normal shop they will do the upgrade but i will lose my waranty .
Is there any advice ?
Thanks
Khalid

No one seems to be hearing what Big Q is saying.
He can pair his iPhone to his Macbook, but cannot CONNECT. He's NOT asking for alternative solutions, like Wi Fi.
I am able to both pair and connect my one one Macbook to my other one, but I can only pair but not connect my iPhone or iPad to either Macbook. So I have the same problem. But I can pair and connect my Macbooks to other Bluetooth devices, like my ancient Nokia cellfone, or my Bluetooth HP printer.
It's irrelavent that I can instead use a direct USB cable or Wi Fi between my Macbooks and my iPhone/iPad - why can't I use Bluetooth? If Apple does not allow Bluetooth between it's Macbooks and other Mac devices, then why have Bluetooth at all? Does my iPhone have Bluetooth only so that I can pair and connect to my my non Apple mobile handsfree car kit, or communicate easily with the dreaded Apple enemy Samsung, or what?
Make no mistake , I am a diehard Apple fan, but this Bluetooth non compatibility issue appears shortsighted and seemingly pointless. Why does Apple not just say why they created the non compatibility, or have a message on the Bluetooth setup programme which simply and clearly says "don't bother wasting hours of your time trying to pair and connect your iPhone to your Macbook, because we don't allow that anymore, reason being that............"?
As a first time user of this Forum I am surprised at the intolerant and highhanded tone of some of the replies to what is a legitimate question, that is obviously plagueing many, many other Apple users.

I have 10.5.8 what can I upgrade to on my MacBook Pro?

I have 10.5.8 what can I upgrade my system to on my MacBook Pro? Thanks for your help.
Lone Ranger

Snow Leopard needs Intel processor, 1 GB RAM.
Lion needs Core2Duo or better Intel processor, 2 GB RAM.
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Can I upgrade to iOS5 on Macbook Pro 1.1?

I have a Macbook Pro 1.1 with OSX 10.5.8 Its processor is 2.16 GB Intel core duo with 1GB 667 Mhz memory. Is it capable of being upgraded to iOS5 so I can join it to the icloud with my other devices?

A Core Duo Mac can't run Mac OS X 10.7, and no Mac can run any iOS version.
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Can i upgrade iMac from my MacBook Pro disc?

hi, does anyone know if i can use my new macbook pro tiger disc to upgrade system on my 2 year old iMac? just not sure if there is something specific on the disc to the macbook & intel processor that would mess up the iMac. Or maybe it's not designed to put system on anything other than that piece of hardware? (sorry, not very versed in mac stuff like this!) thanks...

Actually isn't Apple's EULA that the program can be installed as many times as you want, but only one copy can be running at once?
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Can I upgrade to the new MacBook Pro from PowerBook copying the hard disk?

I have a Power Book G4 17", now I'm going to buy a new MacBook pro 17" and want to transfer the same software (I mean the whole content of my actual HD) to the new MacBook Pro using SuperDuper!
I want to know if the Intel based MacBook Pro can run the same operating system configured in the PowerBook or I must install first the Mac OSX on the new MacBook pro and then reinstalla manually all the applications/documents?
Marcello
PowerBook G4 17" Mac OS X (10.4.8)
PowerBook G4 17" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi Marcello,
first of all: WELCOME TO THE DISCUSSIONS!
No to both of your questions:
No, you cannot clone the PPC hard disk to a new Intel disk. The systems are completely different.
No, you don't have to reinstall all your software manually.
You have to install Tiger from the install DVD that shipped with that MacBook Pro. You CANNOT use any other install disk, so take care you don't damage it! Once this is done you can transfer all your data, applications and settings from the old computer using the migration assistant in /Applications/Utilities.
Be aware that there might be problems with applications that are not universal binaries and require Rosetta emulation: Intel-based Mac: Some migrated applications may need to be updated.
If this answered your question please consider granting some stars: Why reward points?

Can't upgrade RAM on new Macbook Pros?

I'm preparing to buy a new Macbook Pro, and have been told that the RAM that comes with the book is the RAM you get. No upgrade possible because the RAM modules are soldered into place. Is that so? I've always upgraded our computers to the max. Thanks in advance.

That is indeed so.
There still appears to be one model (13" Mid 2012) that is still available that has upgradable RAM.

Can I upgrade my OS on MacBook Pro 10.5.8?

Just tried installing Snow Leopard and it said I couldn't. I think have have enough disk space, memory, processing...
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71 Gig free disk space

Stay on 10.6 on that 10.5 era machine, most all your software and hardware drivers will work with only a minor update using Rosetta.
You go to 10.7 and no Rosetta, have to buy new third party hardware and/or software as a lot won't work with 10.7
Also 10.7 has been doing mean things to older Mac's, even 2010 models of MacBook Pro's.
I've got a dead 2009 model here because of Lion.

Installing more sdram on MacBook Pro 13" i5 (model early 2011)

Hi . I'd like to know if I can install 2x8 Go of sdram on my MacBook Pro 13" i5 (april 2011) or if 2x4 Go is the maximum recognize by my model? Thanks for your answer

Although Apple only 'officially' suggests 8GB of RAM, your system will run and use 16GB of RAM just fine. Be sure that you buy or order from a reputable company (OWC and Crucial online are good choices) and stay away from any 'value' RAM.
Also be certain to order the correct speed RAM for your computer - 204-pin PC-10600 (1333 MHz) DDR3 sticks. While some might be labeled to 'work' with 1333MHz and 1600MHz, for example, you want the correct speed to avoid any issues that might arise.
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Macbook Pro 13 Extremely slow (early 2011)

Hello,
My 2011 Macbook pro got really slow recently to the point where it's not usable. It takes minutes to boot up and then even opening finder takes 2-3 minutes of the spinning "beach ball". I currently have Mavericks on it, but the same problem exists on Lion and Mountain Lion.
Ive cleared (and reflashed) SMC, NVRAM, re installed the OS, replaced the SSD, battery and RAM and nothing makes a difference. Short of replacing the logic board I've tried swapping most of other parts and it make no difference.
Extended diagnostics show no errors, but during verbose startup I can see this error:
"ERROR: MMIO regMap == NULL - fall back to old SMC mode". No other SMC errors.
Interestingly Linux (Mint) runs fine on the machine and so does windows with BootCamp, but OS X is basically unusable.
I would appreciate any help/pointers.
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