#Can you use mac pro 2013 ram in 2012 upgrade#

You'll be reading for a bit, grab a beer first. The 2012 unit review were littered with complaints about failed components, bolstered by Apple employees offering that there were plenty of 'backroom' parts in this EOLed Mac - google for yourself along the lines of this and 'Mac mini slow drive'. No, the 2012 units are not worth it - this coming from an owner of one on my desk. The 2012's mobile CPU is a dog when compared to the desktop CPUs in the 2018. I respect your budget, I wouldn't buy my Mini at your budget when I know I could find a newer i3 unit that performs much better.

To nvme pin style so that almost any nvme SSD stick will fit in your Mac, but you do have to clone your Mac first.Owner of a 2012 i7 Mini Server here, 16GB RAM with a Samsung 850 PRO installed as the main drive. basically the adapter converts the old pin style to a newer m. So you can make your Mac fly much faster yet even much faster than the stock Apple ssd which is already relatively fast, certainly faster than a regular spinner hard drive of course. But they have adapters for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 13in and 15in which all have upgradable SSD drives that can be converted over to use an nvme style SSD also. only a few Max have issues with this adapter and it's usually the 2012 model and I think a few of the 2013 models. just make sure to check the comments or ask a question on the Amazon page for the adapter and make sure that the one you're buying is the updated version. But just know that a few Macs don't like that adapter very well but there is also a newer version of that adapter which has supposedly fixed the shutdown Hang-Ups too. So just a little tip for people that want to get even more speed. with the stock SSD it was more of about 12 or 13 seconds so the booting is twice as fast and the read and write of files is about 3 times faster depending on the nvme drive that you buy. To do this though, you need a little adapter from sintech which you can buy on Amazon for 12.99 but certain machines when this adapter is installed, can/will hang at shut down and sometimes have a weird sleep issue which there are a few fixes for by running a couple of commands in the terminal app but it doesn't really work on all machines either but on my 20 MacBook Pro retina has the adapter has works perfectly for both of them so I'm running a much much faster nvme style SSD which is amazing. The nvme drive I swapped it out for has an average read-write speed of 3500 give or take.

My stock SSD had a read and write speed average of about 1500 give or take.

#Can you use mac pro 2013 ram in 2012 upgrade#

What's awesome about the SSD, is that it's so fast in most cases it can kind of make up for the lack of ram upgrade ability on the machines that aren't upgradable because programs still open so quick.Īlso what you can do, is buy a sintech nvme adapter and an nvme style SSD which are three times or so faster than a standard Apple SSD. Well, you ask what does that mean? It means the average persons MacBook Pro Retina will only last 2 years (and degrade by $4 every time you plug it in)Īpple needs to go back to how they were when the became who they once were. They have now started glueing the Retina models battery to the case with an abundant amount of glue and they are non replaceable with a life expectancy of 1K charge cycles. (i.e MacBook Pro Retinas and MacBook Air's) The Life expectance of the Retina models are 2 years, Apple is selling out what used to be a company that was dedicated to the users is now only worried about profit and made many if not all of the past models upgradeable parts now non upgradeable in the newer models. Simply because Apple says 8 GB is the maximum amount doesn’t make it true, I have 16 GB in my (Mid 2012 13' MacBook Pro) and Apple says the maximum RAM is 8 GB so take what they say with a grain of salt. However in older unibody MacBook Pro's many people have doubled the claimed maximum amount. You actually can’t upgrade the RAM at all. No! The 2012 MacBook Pro ‘‘Retina’’ cannot upgrade the RAM to 16 GB after purchase,