OCZ offers SSDs and SODIMMs Upgrades for MacBooks

Category: Memory, Storage / Hard Drives
Posted: April 7, 2009 07:16PM
Author: Nemo

Who says you can't upgrade a Mac? Certainly not OCZ who announced two new product seires for Apple's MacBook. First up is the Vertex series Mac edition solid state drives. Offered in capacities of 30GB, 60GB, 120GB and 250GB, the drives come with 64MB of cache. Depending on the model, the Vertex solid sate drives feature up to 240MB/s sequential read and 170MB/s sequential write speeds. OCZ also announced a series of Mac Edition SODIMMS memory to be available in DDR2-667 and DDR3-8500 2GB modules or 4GB (2 x 2048MB) designed for Apple's Intel processor MacBooks and MacBook Pros. OCZ says the kits have been tested and validated at the Apple Development Center to ensure compatibility and stability in Mac notebooks. OCZ did not disclose pricing or availability on the new products.

Sweet! Of course, the first thing I did with my Mac was upgrade the memory and HDD. At a much cheaper cost than what Apple wanted. ;) Being that I'm a couple of months away from a new MacBook, this is awesome news.

I still don't understand why you "need" Apple certified memory. Okay, memory might be a tiny bit different since timings can vary, but the hard drive? No way. Standards exist for a reason

AMD, Intel, nVidia, ATi, and everyone else under the sun do similar things.

Apple certified memory may have mattered with the old beige Macintoshes any of the G3/G4 based machines using PC66/100/133 memory, but since the time Apple started using DDR memory, any stick has worked. It's just that not every stick is recognized if you hit the machine's RAM limit (ei, you can put 2x1GB sticks and 2x512 MB sticks into a MDD Mac, and it'll only use the first 2 GB of total RAM available; pull the 2x512 GB sticks, and you still have 2 GB of RAM).