What would be more interesting as it was sold with 1333 MHz memory. I'm sure it's there, I just don't care much because the machine with the slower memory is a server.Īlso be interested to see if the older machine with the faster memory got a speed boost memory wise. What I haven't done, is run a benchmark test on a single Mac, with the two memory variations to see the performance hit. Samsung ram Memory Upgrade DDR0, 1600MHz, 204 PIN, SODIMM for 2012 Apple MacBook Pro's, 2012 iMac's, and 2011/2012 Mac Mini's (8GB kit (2 x 4GB)) 4.6 out of 5 stars 86 31.00 31. It ran for 8 hours, and passed all checksums. Oh and FWIW, I did a memory stress test as well. I just know this works for these two machines. I'm not stating this would work in all Macs, and I don't think this would work will all memory speeds. Similarly to how your system might behave if you swapped in a faster or slower processor in Macs that support that (i.e. A-Tech 8GB PC3-12800 DDR3 1600MHz RAM for Apple MacBook Pro (Mid 2012), iMac (Late 2012, Early/Late 2013, Late 2014, Mid 2015), Mac Mini (Late 2012) 204-Pin SODIMM Memory Upgrade Module.

My understanding is that the system detects the slower memory, and then runs a but slower as a result. I have read reports previously about how it was possible to use slower or faster RAM than recommened in Macbooks as long as they matched: I think Apple doesn't recommend it for performance reasons not stability reasons.īoth machines post the correct memory speed, and even more interestingly, on the memory tab of the system profiler it even reminds me to be sure to fill the next DIMM slot with the same speed.

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