While the market for reselling this memory may currently be small, an extra set of DIMMs could still come in handy for troubleshooting or future upgrades. Further, users purchasing third party memory get to keep the existing 12 or 16GB kit that shipped with the Mac Pro. Today, the company lowered the price to $829, and the chart above has been updated accordingly.Īs you can see, there is a clear cost advantage to third party RAM, with a maximum potential savings of about $460 over the stock Apple upgrade. *Update: when we first published this article, OWC’s kit was priced at $849. As a result, Crucial’s entry in the table represents two 32GB kits. Also note that Crucial does not currently sell a single 64GB kit for the Mac Pro, but instead a 32GB (16GBx2) kit.
Note that Apple charges different amounts to upgrade to 64GB of RAM depending on the base configuration of 12 or 16GB.
But what’s the best way to acquire that additional RAM? We’ll attempt to address the value proposition in the following table. If you need the power of the 2013 Mac Pro, you’ll also likely need more RAM than Apple provides in its standard configurations.
This means that many purchasers of the new Mac Pro will want to maximize the available slots and upgrade their system’s memory from the 12 or 16GB capacities found on the Mac Pro’s standard configurations. This limit is a step down from the previous Mac Pro design, which supported eight RAM slots, for up to 128GB at current memory densities. The 2013 Mac Pro’s small chassis limits the user to only four RAM slots, supporting an official maximum of 64GB of memory (several manufacturers have recently announced 32GB DIMMs, enabling up to 128GB of RAM, although we have yet to test this configuration). But if there’s one area where the Mac Pro could use an upgrade, it’s RAM.
With a sleek new design, powerful components, and updated software, the new Mac Pro promises to significantly improve power user and professional workflows.
When Apple released its flagship Mac Pro redesign late last year, professionals rushed to place their orders. Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.2013 Mac Pro RAM Upgrade Benchmarks: Apple vs.
Click here to use the guide to select and order OWC Memory Upgrade Kits for Mac Pro models.įor more information, visit Other World Computing. To assist in selecting the correct memory upgrade for any 2006-2009 Mac Pro model, OWC has created a guide that shows what RAM type and speed each Mac Pro model uses. Pricing for OWC Memory Upgrade Kits up to 16GB for 2009 Mac Pro Quad-Core 2.66GHz and 2.93GHZ models: The Mac Pro Upgrade Kits are backed with a money back guarantee and OWC’s lifetime advance replacement warranty. OWC Memory Upgrade Kits for the 2009 Mac Pro “Nehalem” models are designed to meet Apple Design Specifications, including use of Apple required thermal sensor equipped EEPROM, JEDEC board design, and chip components and are fully RoHS and JEDEC compliant. In addition, Mac Pro owners have the option of retaining their original factory memory modules to be set aside for future use or send the modules to OWC for a cash back trade-in of up to $20 per Apple factory memory module. OWC Memory Upgrades provide Mac Pro users up to 70% in savings, according to the company, as well as up to three 4GB module-based upgrades not offered by the factory: 12GB (3 x 4GB), 16GB (4 x 4GB), and 24GB (6 x 4GB, 8-Core models only). Other World Computing (OWC) is shipping a line of multi-channel 1066MHz DDR3 72-bit ECC memory upgrades up to 32GB for the 2009 Mac Pro “Nehalem” models.