Macbook Pro March Revision - How To

I am looking to upgrade the memory in my macbook pro that currently has 4gigs. I heard that there was a revision in March 09 and those macbooks could get 8 gigs. I don't recall when I purchased mine, and I have had a logic board replaced since then was well. Is there a way to tell in the Profiler if the macbook is indeed the March revision?
Matt

i agree with Niel here. I had a friend who i helped do a memory swap on. You can only upgrade to 6GB.

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