What kind of issue is going on here? Obviously we're getting mixed messages with the info above about being able to accept much larger memory configurations, but in practice things get quite whacky. Two of the DIMMS are being recognized while the others are not, even though there are 4 GB DIMMs in place and 4 4GB DIMMS: Buyee - Bid for 'Mac mini (Mid 2010A1347SSD480GB/Apple/MC270 J/A /8GB/10.13 HighSierra/GeForce 320M, Mac Mini, Desktop, Mac' directly on Yahoo Japan Auctions in real-time and buy from. Upon installing these, my system still shows 32GB of RAM, but the 7 & 8 DIMM slots are showing empty now at this point.
I subsequently returned this RAM and acquired 4 8GB DIMMs. I then purchased 2 16GB chips in hopes to raise the amount of RAM, however my system would simply not start up at all. I initially had an arrangement of 8 4GB DIMMs. Originally, they both officially and unofficially supported a maximum of 8 GB of RAM with two 4 GB memory modules. The 'Mid-2010' Mac mini models have two memory slots that support 1066 MHz PC3-8500 DDR3 SO-DIMMs. Only when running a 64-bit version of Windows XP or later or Linux. RAM Types & Actual Maximum RAM Capacities.
More recently, OWC yet againĭiscovered these dual processor models can support up to 128 GB, but "Leopard" and later increased this maximum to 96 GB of RAM running Mac OWC firstĬonfirmed an actual maximum of 64 GB of RAM running Mac OS X 10.5 RAM, but again, OWC found they actually can support more. Systems with dual processors, which notes as the "EightĬore" and "Twelve Core" models, likewise officially support 32 GB of From what I have read as per 's information about this unit it should be possible to have far beyond the normal maximum noted by Apple: I have a MacPro5,1 with 8 cores (2 quad-core processors) running OS X 10.10.2.