Will Snow Leopard change the amount of recognized RAM?

Or is my 06' MBP 2.16GHz still limited by hardware? Just kinda of struck me today, and got me to wondering.

LeSpensive wrote:
So it is the hardware limitation? I'm wanting to max out my RAM, and upgrade to a 7200RPM drive. I figure that will give me a decent speed boost. How hard is it to swap drives? I need to clone the original to copy over to the new drive.
It's more or less a hardware limitation. Some of max memory specs are firmware limitations.
Maxing out you RAM is a good idea, but you're still stuck with a max 4 GB RAM installed and 3.2 GB used. I would think later models that currently can run an unofficial 6 GB won't get any kind of firmware update.
Cloning is easy. The hard drive swap may be a bit harder. It's not so hard that I wouldn't try myself if I had one (I refuse to try on an iBook) but it's more involved than a polycarbonate MacBook or any of the new unibody MacBook/MacBook Pro models.
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Core-2-Duo-Model-A1211-Ha rd-Drive-Replacement/459/1

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