MBP A1150 2.16 installing 4 gig of ram

Hello everyone, has anyone installed 4 gig of ram on this older MBP? it is a A1150 2.16 duo core 15" machine. If you look on the original specs apple says no the machine only supports up to 2 gigs. I've read in allot of places if you use the correct ram that yes indeed you can put 4 gigs in that machine. Has anyone done it successfully around these parts? If you talk to the RAM dealers they say they do it all the time but i would rather hear from someone not trying to sell me something. My machine is getting slow, i push it hard with 10.6 installed, parallels running XP then have entourage and my financial software running. thats asking allot of this old machine but other then being a bit slow she is great. Thanks all in advance.

If it's a Core Duo model it only supports 2 GBs. If it's a Core 2 Duo model you can install 4 GBs but only 3 GBs will be usable. You can also install only 3 GBs (one 2 and one 1 GB modules.)

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