Can my late 2008 macbook pro use 8GB ram now or snow leopard??

i got my new mbp in oct 2008 choose the 2.5GHz and order the 4GB Ram in apple store
i want to improve my mbp performance in snow leopard and using photoshop and maya
is it possible to upgrade my ram to 8 GB???

JoeyR wrote:
Actually the unibody machines switched from an Intel chipset to the NVidia MCP79 chipset.
The thing is tho, what I dont understand is why both late 2008 and mid 2009 motherboards use the came motherboard (both using the same chipset) and still limit the user from doing this. I thinks its just apple's way of saying "Buy a new computer"
Below in the links, NVidia say that their chipset used in the late 2008 systems can support 8GB but its up to Apple if they want to enable it or not.
It's really not fair at all, its been proven that the late 2008 systems can support the update just by a simple EFI update. *Get on it Apple!*
----Links----
(http://blogs.computerworld.com/nvidiasays_new_macbook_pro_can_do_8gb_ofram)
(http://www.macrumors.com/2008/10/24/new-macbook-pro-does-not-support-8gb-ram-for -now/)
(http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=6493933&postcount=49)
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