Have Best buy instal Ram upgrade on my macbook pro.

A couple months ago I bought a macbook pro 13 in from best buy and today I just bought the crucial 8gb ram upgrade for it. I have the tech support and best buy accidental warranty for my macbook. How to I get them to install it for me?

Yeah whoops it does say hardware installation on the list of covered items... somehow I glanced right over it.
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Just installed a 16GB RAM upgrade in my MacBook Pro and now it doesn't wake up on it's own when I open the lid. I have to press the power button. It works fine with a smaller RAM upgrade.
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I upgraded my early 2011 MBP to 16 gigs with Crucial. My machine would not sleep properly, because when I tried to wake it, it would wake from its hibernate image file. This is the issue I've seen here in this list.
I tried all the suggestions I saw on these groups. Nothing helped. I contacted Crucial, who suggested that if their RAM was defective, they'd replace it per their warranty process. I needed some proof it was their RAM causing the problem.
I put the original 8 gigs RAM back in the machine (2 4 gig sticks), and it behaved normally. I then put one stick of Crucial RAM in, all by itself. The machine behaved normally. I put the other stick of Crucial RAM back in, and took the first one out. The machine would not properly sleep and wake from sleep. This proved that one stick was causing the problem, and the other was not.
Defective RAM!
I then requested and received an RMA from Crucial to send the defective RAM back. They paid shipping. I got new sticks of RAM about a week later. These new sticks of RAM work properly. No sleep issues.
I'm surprised and disappointed to say that this is not the first time I've received defective RAM from Crucial. I've purchased from them for years, and had GREAT service and received high quality products. The past couple years my experience has been different.
I'm still pretty steamed about this, as I spent a great deal of time trying to diagnose the problem and fix it. I don't really have that kind of time to waste. My expectation was that their RAM was high quality, and unlikely to be at fault.
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I've bought two 4GB RAM sticks for my Macbook Pro (2.4 Intel i5 running 10.6.7) and they failed the Hardware Memory Test. I tested them individually and they passed and I retested my original RAM and it passed. I sent the RAM back and got replacements and the same thing happened. Both sticks in fail... put them in individually, they pass. Has anyone else experienced anything similar?

tbux wrote:
Do you see much performance improvement after the upgrade?
Hi t,
Although that question was asked in reply to my post, I suspect you're asking Paulos42 . . . .
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Hey boss I checked MacTracker and for the Early 2010 13" MBP (your model) it showed these specs:
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Forgive me for trolling on this topic but I wanted to be a bit more specific and get properly eductated before I make a final decision. I had a 17" and I f@cking hate it because of it's size.
I have been a mac guy for a few years but up until now I relyed on my tech/junior assistant to deal with all the tech stuff. He has now gone and on his own leaving me to get all techy again.
A little about me and what I will use the laptop for.
I am a photographer/film maker. I run CS6 very often sometimes daily. I usually have multiple picuture files open with multiple layers. Some images can range to a size of 600mb+. I shoot with cameras with no less than 18 megapxls. On top of that I may also have FINAL CUT PRO and working on short films. I generally have the habit of jumping back and forth between the two, plus get distracted with the web and stream videos. and the od video game (but not so much).
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1. I travel quite a bit I really prefer the portability of the 13" MBP and want to avoid having to buy te 15" MBP
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Thanks mate but it doesnt, answer the question about performance.
In terms of screen real estate, I don't care much for it as I usually work relatively close to the pixel sizes and I generally work in very dum conditions so the antiglare is something I also dont care for. If mac offered a Matt finish screen again it would be a dream lol.
Retina though sweet is really just a gimmick, stare at one screen, starred at them all, so I'm fine with the regular MBP.
And size does matter.
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