[Paul Neumann] “My March 2011 15″ Macbook Pro came with 1gb of RAM. Well before CS6 was released. I put 16 gb of RAM in it and it runs just great.”
My March 2011 17″ MacBook Pro also came with 1GB…I knew beforehand that the Mercury Playback Engine required 1GB of RAM on the GPU, so I made sure to purchase the one that had that, even though, at the time, OpenCL was not supported.
You’re probably also referring to the 2010 MacBook Pro with the NVIDIA 320M (I believe it was) that came with 512MB…so even though you may have “beefed up” your MBP, it’s still 3 years old now, and with a dual-core i7 to boot (2011 and up is quad core i7).