{"id":570,"date":"2010-10-24T23:29:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T06:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.52techtips.com\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2010-10-17T23:40:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T06:40:02","slug":"mac-memory-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/24\/mac-memory-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Memory Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased 8GB of RAM from Amazon.com for my Macbook Pro. So far the upgrade has been terrific. No hardware conflicts to speak of and the performance boost to VM-Ware Fusion running Windows 7 has been terrific. There is no longer any noticeable lag in either OS. I had read a few reviews about RAM upgrades that had gone bad so I went on the search for something to test the hardware. I found a great application called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kelleycomputing.net\/rember\/\" target=\"_blank\">rember<\/a>&#8221; [http:\/\/www.kelleycomputing.net\/rember\/]. Rember provides a nice GUI for running a battery of memory tests. The tests ran successfully and all appears to be running well now after a few weeks with the new hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I ordered:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001UNI80A?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=52tectip-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B001UNI80A\">Corsair CM3X8GSDKIT1066 XMS3 8 GB PC3-8500 1066Mhz 204-pin SODIMM Laptop Memory<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=52tectip-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001UNI80A\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I should mention that this was a considerable savings over the Apple upgrade price of $600.00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased 8GB of RAM from Amazon.com for my Macbook Pro. So far the upgrade has been terrific. No hardware conflicts to speak of and the performance boost to VM-Ware Fusion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[68,169],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-ram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}