How to upgrade My Mac Book Pro 15" Mid 2010 from Ram 8go to 16go to use for Final cut pro ?

Hi,
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) 2,66 GHz Intel Core i7 with graphic card NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 Mo and would like to know if its possible to upgrade my Ram from 8 to 16 Go to work more faster with final cut ... Thanks for your feed back

scrutinizer82 wrote:
So, you do recognize that one can upgrade MBP RAM past 8 GB? It means Niel was incorrect.
Only for certain models will that apply. Niel gave a correct answer. Note that tofaustral has a 2010 MBP, I have both a 2010 and 2011 MBPs. The former is limited to 8 GB RAM and the latter can accept 16 GB RAM. In both cases, Apple specifications state that 8 GB is the maximum.
if technically it's possible to have 16 GB of RAM will it affect performance positively (speed up), that is, without excessive amount of unused RAM? Did you feel improvement after installing 16 GB?
RAM does not speed up a computer. It will allow for more applications to be run simultaneously and will allow the computer to run more efficiently when a resource intensive application requires more RAM than might otherwise be available. If an application requires to run efficiently with 2 GB RAM, there will be no difference in performance if the computer has 4 GB RAM installed or 16 GB installed. A resource intensive application will run more efficiently if it requires more than 8 GB RAM on a computer with 16 GB RAM installed as opposed to one with just 8 GB RAM. RAM not used has no affect in performance.
Furthermore, what about Apple's warranty in this case? Will it be automatically terminated?
If the user manual has instructions for installing RAM, then doing so will not void the warranty unless you damage the computer in the process.
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