Upgrading clients two MBP memory and to SSD

i am working with one of my clients who has two MBP 15" model identifier: 6.2 and 5.3 currently both have 4gig of memory and a 5400RPM drive in them.
i want to upgrade them to 8gig of memory which i believe is the max for those models, but not sure which brand of memory to upgrade them to. so i am looking for suggestions.
the same goes for the SSD upgrade. I am looking at a 256gb drive, most likely 6gb interface so if they decide to upgrade to a new mbp they can install it into that machine at a later date.
i have read that a lot of people are going with:
Crucial M4
Samsung 830 series
Plextor M3
Sandisk Extreme
i also found a link to this website: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_6G/
i wanted to get some feedback on these SSD and see which one you would recommend as well as the memory choices you recommend.
these clients are architects that require running windows as a vm to pump AutoCAD as well as improve overall system performance and functionality. sometimes its painful waiting for applications, menu's to open right now!
thank you

Go with Crucial RAM - competitive price and top quality:
http://www.crucial.com/store/drammemory.aspx
RAM is especially important if you're switching between applications, or have lots of desktop pulldown menus.
Crucial M4 is fast and reliable; I have it installed on my MBP. The Samsung and Plextor are equally reliable and well received. Although these are very good quality, it's good to have a long warranty.

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I want to update my ThinkPad E420s. Now I have 4 GB of memroy and 320 hard drive. I want to get 8 GB memory and a solid stated drive.
I want to verify that I have chosen components that will work with the laptop.
Will the memory and the SSD below work with E420s?
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Hi Mihalych,
Sure I will provide you the link where you can check with our customer care for nearby service center for your region.
Please click here to visit the Lenovo support link and select your region to get the contact number.
Hope this helps!
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OS 10.9.2 upgrade - then constantly losing memory - and finally resolved it...

A few days ago, I upgraded to OS 10.9.2 (2011 17" 4-core i7 250GB SSD MBP) - and the following day noticed a dramatic drop in available HD memory. I use FreeSpace to monitor my various HDs and only saw the issue when its value appeared red (<20%) in my upper icons. Started dumping unwanted files (it was time for a clear-out!), but the available space still continued to fall. That made no sense. Closing down apps made no difference. With nothing open, the memory level still continued to steadily drop.
Took it in to the Genius Bar the next day, where they re-installed 10.9.2 and sent me home to "see what happens now..." Did a re-install using Time Machine (Migration Assistant). Initially, all seemed fine, and then the available memory space started dropping again. I turned off all apps, to see what would happen, but this issue continued. Time Machine kept sending an error, as now did DuperDuper! which I use as a second back-up app (yes, I'm anal about backing up). These responses were new. Patently, something was seriously amiss.
Last night, I went to turn Time Machine off, not wanting or needing its error messages any longer - I had another appointment lined up at the Genius Bar for this morning, to try and resolve this losing-memory issue. All apps were closed down. It was only a minute or so after turning Time Machine off in System Preferences that I saw the FreeSpace indicator change from red to black and the available memory space spin back up to where it should be in less than a minute - an upward jump of around 50GB, for no apparent reason. I turned Time Machine back on - just in case! - but nothing changed. Memory level still back in the black. It has remained so overnight and still sits there, as it used to.
So! - just putting this out there as a situational report, in case it can help anyone else. I am not "techie" enough to know what happened or why - just sharing what I observed. If it helps one other person, then that's good!!
Happy Days!!

Thanks indeed for that fast response!!
Time Machine is still creating its first backup after I re-partitioned one of my external HDs last night, to give everything more space (another 8 hours to go, I gather), so I've yet to see what happens when it begins taking those "snapshots" again. At least now I know where to look, to see what is taking up the space!
I also read a thread where the snapshots can be turned off using Terminal, and that may be a future option if TM is the actual culprit, as it appears.
Again, my thanks for your prompt response and advice. Greatly appreciated.

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I'm not a huge gamer, the only game I can think of playing on XP is Flight Simulator X, which does need a good video card, but I haven't played any games for 6 months or so, so I don't think that justifies getting a MBP.
Other than that, how is XP performance on the Core 2 Duo macbook? Does the integrated graphics cause problems? I suppose it is just like any XP laptop you can buy nowadays, as most of them also come with integrated graphics.
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2. Running iEatBrainz (a rosetta version). the fan came on while it was scanning my music collection, maybe this isn't related to integrated graphics?
3. Playing an HD trailer, the fans come on. If this is due to integrated graphics then isn't this a future problem when there will be more HD around to play? the fan coming on all the time will be very annoying. I'm not really going to be playing heavy HD anytime soon though, but in the future it might be an issue.
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Problem 1:
It has crashed 3 times in the past week.
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Crash 2: Once again I think this is due to the external display. I was connected to the external display when I put the computer to sleep and it hung, the display was still on the external monitor but I couldn't click on any menus or dock so I had to force shutdown.
Crash 3: Just 2 days ago I disconnected from the external display and was using it on the couch when I closed the lid because I had something to do and as i walked away I heard the startup apple sound! It had restarted just because I closed the lid! That was really odd.
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Just in case, I have reinstalled the whole OS a day ago and so far with multiple sleep cycles and doing normal work (not connected to external stuff) it is just fine so I don't think there is a hardware issue.
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The other problem with the Macbook is that the button on the trackpad is just slightly sort of off-balance? I can make it move forward/backward vertically if I trace my finger vertically across it, is this normal? Sometimes if I click on the left hand side, it sort of gets stuck but immediately comes back up, so it's not a huge problem but annoying nonetheless. Does this warrant me getting a replacement unit? Could the button just stop working in the future, and then they have to replace the whole top casing don't they? Note that this happens only sometimes, and is hard to reproduce if I try to do it manually, it just happens *once in a while* but the button does work properly and everything and the right side of the trackpad is just fine.
Other than this the laptop is fine, and I simply don't have the budget to pay for a MBP right now but I've been waiting to get a mac for so long now that I just don't want to return this and wait a few more months ...
White 2.0 Ghz Macbook Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

you are right, the macbook has endured multiple sleep/wake cycles now, and i finally plugged in a USB mouse yesterday and it still seems fine. The touchpad button is still a little loose however.
As for the extended test, I did that and there are no problems, so what do I do now?
I have decided against upgrading for now, and I don't want to go to the hassle of taking it all the way down to the apple store, but even more stories today of macbook cases slightly warped after time and cracks appearing also scare me, how common is this? Or is it just careless users who might have dropped the macbook?
If this case bending or warping or cracking and ramping up fans is common, I might as well save all my money and return it. I don't want to argue with Apple later on about fixing things, I've read horror stories there as well ...
and yes, I'm in a forum where people only post problems but there seems to be too many, or am I wrong?
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With no legal means of removal through iTunes, these apps degrade the product.
When will Apple create the option many of their clients want and allow these superfluous apps to be removed?

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It all depends on which MacBook Pro model you have - I have a late 2011 and have upgraded to 16GB of RAM and a SSD, shortly after I received my 'new' MBP in April. You'll notice great speed differences in memory-hungry apps if you upgrade your RAM but you'll really be amazed at the shear speed of an SSD.
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I tried to remove all copies of Office 2011 from the MBP, but the instructions provided by Microsoft required about three page and seventeen steps and the page was somehow corrupted and would not print in its entirety, nor would it e-mail as anything other than a link to the corrupted page. Not trusting my memory, I decided not to try this without adult supervision.
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http://www.microsoft.com/mac/support
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macword?auth=1
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macword/microsoft-wor d-for-mac-2011-will-not-open-error/ecc42616-6f49-40bb-b8f5-e21c711ea359

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Cheers everybody, new here...
I know, despite the specs published 8Gmax and 1333mhz, for the macbook pro late 2011 2.2G i7 processor
We can read here that its possible to go 16G ram, and also to 1600mhz.
1-have a mbp late 2011 2.2Ghz i7 (original config with 4G of ram 1333mhz)
2-last w/e have upgraded ram to 8G of 1600mhz found it seemed to work fine and it was fast
3-than upgraded with 16G of 1333mhz and find it much slower
Not sure of what to do from now :
wondering if it could be that 8G 1600mhz is optimal ?
I havent tried 16G of 1600mhz yet...

Hi there !
Update:
Here are the last changes, as of this morning, of the configuration on my macbook pro late 2011 (2.2Ghz processor 15.4 screen).
Now have 16 G (2x8) of Kingston RAM 1600mhz (12800 1.35V) that and a brand new 256G samsung 850 pro SSD.
I KNOW...NOT QUITE THE SPECS SUPPLIED FROM APPLE/INTEL ... :/
I was able to trade the 16G 1333mhz purchased RAM for 16G of 1600mhz , so i gave a shot...
So im happy about the result and hope this will last and not fry in the next weeks...
Honestly It's running quite well and fast too.
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p.s.
And Here, as promised, the answer from Intel :
joe_intelIl y a 3 jours
The document does not list all the processor models but it is the correct document for your processor family (http://ark.intel.com/products/family/59136/2nd-Generation-Intel-Core-i7-Processo rs#@Mobile). "1Gb, 2Gb, and 4Gb DDR3 DRAM technologies" refer to SDRAM density, it is not about capacity as it is usually expressed in GB (instead of Gb). SDRAM density depends on the total amount of memory chips on the stick and per side (SDRAM organization). Memory modules rated or sold as 1600 MHz may or may not run at 1600 MHz; this depends on the Serial Presence Detect. If the SPD is 1333 MHz it will run at 1333 MHz by default unless it is configured manually. If the memory runs at 1600 MHz (by SPD or set up manually), the memory controller might be running at a higher clock speed than what it was designed for, this may cause issues along the way.
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Hi JoeThanks for the answer Im feeling optimistic...I installed 16G(2x8) ram on my late 2011 macbook pro this is 1600mhz 1.35v ram.Its working fine for now...Hope it lasts;)

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