Green vertical line on MacBook Pro 15 inch 2.53 GHZ (purchased 06/09)

I wanted to make people aware of a vertical green line which appeared 2 weeks after the 1 year warranty expired. The Apple Store said the display assembly needed to be replaced ($492.00 to fix). Pretty disappointing to get such an expensive hardware problem on a fairly new computer. Just wanted to make people aware.

A mid 15" 2009 MBP will accept 8 GB RAM with the following specifications:  204-pin PC3-8500 (1066 MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM.
The best sources of Mac compatible RAM are OWC and Crucial.
Ciao.
cruteyballs wrote:
Hi all,
Could you go one fiurther and insert 2 x 8gb into it?
NO!
Not sure how much it can handle but it's running quite slow so I'd like to upgrade the RAM if possible.
There may be other reasons why your MBP is slow.  RAM is usually not the cure unless you are running a lot of applications.
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