If all has gone successfully, your Mac will automatically acknowledge the additional RAM. With 10.7 Lion Apple dropped all support for Power PC applications. Flip over your Mac, plug it in to a power supply if necessary, and power it up.
#MACBOOK MEMORY UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS INSTALL#
This was part of the Operating System in 10.4 and 10.5 but was an optional install in 10.6. Applications written for the Power PC processors need the application called Rosetta to run on Intel processors. Universal and Intel will run under Lion.īefore Mac switched to Intel processors in 2006 they used Power PC processors from 1994 to 2005. Then look under Kind to see if any of your applications are listed as Power PC. When System Profiler comes up select Applications under Software.
To see if you have any Power PC programs go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info. Lion will require at least 2gb of RAM but really needs 4gb to run smoothly.Īs for third party programs see this list for compatibility with 10.7 Īlso Lion doesn't run any Power PC programs. Open Carbon Copy Cloner and do a second clone, this time from the external drive to the new SSD. Use Disk Utilities to initialise the new SSD. Finally, if you can’t tell that the RAM is coming from a reputable brand that you can trust, you will need to verify what you are buying and check out the company’s reputation a little before making a commitment. Touch a metal surface inside the computer to discharge any static electricity from your body. Fortunately, Apple even has upgrade instructions available under the Memory area of the About section of your MacBook. Depending on the model of your MacBook Pro, you may have three or four screws. You are now running your Mac off the external drive. Using a Phillips size 00 screwdriver, unscrew the memory door and remove it from the battery bay of your computer. Then within 3 days you will get an email with a code which you can use to download Lion from the App Store. Restart the Mac holding down the Option key. You will have to call Apple Customer Care 1-80 or 1-80. Once you are at 10.6.8 Lion is still available from Apple. You will need to be running 10.6.8 to access the App Store to order Lion. The 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD is in the Apple online store.
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