Update: A radar has been filed to get those Mac minis to support I filed rdar://23869832. With a firmware upgrade, the Mac minis at that time would go from supporting 4GB to 8GB. Back in 2009, we wrote about " The State of the Mac mini " and we were the first ones to confirm that a RAM increase had happened. I know it’s not likely, but it’s not the first time this would happen. Samsung ram Memory Upgrade DDR0, 1600MHz, 204 PIN, SODIMM for 2012 Apple MacBook Pro's, 2012 iMac's, and 2011/2012 Mac Mini's (16GB kit (2 x 8GB)) 4.7 out of 5 stars 452 58.00 58. ) In the mean time, here are all the available Mac mini upgrades. (Anyone with more info, please feel free to contact us. If it does happen, the value of used Mac minis will remain high. Now that the modules are available, it would sure be nice to have that option.
16gb ram for mac mini 2012 update#
In other words, if Apple can find it in their heart to update the MRC (Memory Reference Code) in the firmware of the Mac mini then we could all feed our RAM addiction. So, do they work?Īs best we can tell, it is simply software holding it back at this point. (e.g., 2x16GB = 32GB)įast forward to earlier this year as main-stream companies now offer 16GB modules that are the correct size and speed for the Mac mini. However, the Mac mini only had two RAM slots and 16GB modules were not available. This means that if you want to have more RAM in your Mac mini you need to make that decision at. That processor has a max memory size of 32GB. Here is the spec for the 2012 Mac mini models. When the 2012 Mac mini was first released, everyone was excited to see an upgraded quad-core processor, the Intel Core i7-3615QM.