Owners of the new unibody aluminum MacBooks are reporting that after third-party RAM Upgrades, their machines are becoming quite unstable and locking up. There are a number of discussion threads on Apple’s support forums where users have complained about such issues dating back to mid-October. It appears that if the MacBook is updated with Apple’s more »

Nvidia already claimed that the new MacBooks can handle more than 4GB of RAM, but until now it’s just been Nvidia’s word against Apple’s. Well, thanks to Luke from iFixIt Labs, we now know that Nvidia’s claim that the MacBook can accept 8GB of RAM is accurate. There are only two problems remaining: 8GB of RAM is still really expensive, and Apple wasn’t necessarily lying either.

It turns out the MacBook can see all 8GB of RAM, it just doesn’t know what to do with it.