Apr 12 2007
Is there something special about 8-core Mac Pro memory and hard drives?
I’m no expert on this stuff; I’m just an average Joe who makes his living off his Mac. But, I have always thought that if you could match any hard drive or stick of RAM with the type that was used in your Mac, that you could be pretty sure that they would be interchangeable. In other words, a 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive by any other name will still work just fine.
Trust Apple’s Knowledge Base to set me straight. According to this article, posted on April 4th of this year, certain memory and drives for quad-core and 8-core Mac Pros with seemingly the same specifications, but different part numbers, as other memory and drives available from Apple are not compatible with the 8-core Mac Pros but are only for use with quad-core Macs.
What is up with that?
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