We happened across a macbook6,1 that only had 2 GB of RAM and an old spinning hard drive. Knowing the machine just needed a\u00a0faster internal drive and more memory to be completely usable, we quickly focused on potential upgrades.<\/p>\n
For cost purposes, a\u00a0240 GB Kingston SSDNow (SUV400S37\/240G)<\/a> replaced the old hard drive and \u00a0the RAM was upgraded to 8 GB, but it took some research on the RAM to figure out what would work best.<\/p>\n Others have\u00a0reported that 8 GB Crucial RAM kits will work in the macbook6,1, including:<\/p>\n We purchased this listing\u00a0on Amazon<\/a>\u00a0and at the time we purchased it the last two part numbers, above, were part of the listing; however, the present Amazon listing only seems to include part number “CT2K4G3S1067M” and when our package arrived, the label on the RAM was “CT2K4G3S1067M”. We\u00a0installed the 8 GB kit on October 2016 and it has\u00a0been working fine ever since, leaving our\u00a0macbook6,1 much faster and without\u00a0kernel panics.<\/p>\n The only slow down my son whines about is the machine not\u00a0sleeping and waking\u00a0as\u00a0fast as it use to, but\u00a0I told him if this is true, it makes\u00a0sense. The machine now has to write\u00a08 GB of RAM to the SSD whenever it goes to sleep and it reads this same amount from the SSD when it wakes up. I don’t notice any slow down after the upgrade, but\u00a0if you believe my\u00a011 year old has noticed this, then the reason above may be in play…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We happened across a macbook6,1 that only had 2 GB of RAM and an old spinning hard drive. Knowing the machine just needed a\u00a0faster internal drive and more memory to be completely usable, we quickly focused on potential upgrades. For … Continue reading \n