Josias said:You can upgrade the following things:
RAM (up to 4 GB)
HDD (up to 200 GB)
Optical drive (some companies will install a 8x DVD+/-RW DL drive for you)
You can't upgrade the video card, since it's soldered onto the motherboard, so is your Core Duo processor. You can get a HD mod for the screen, but I wouldn't do that. Dunno why.
patseguin said:Pretty sure it only takes up to 2GB RAM.
McNewbie said:Yes I was under the impression that I could only put two 1gb RAM in the MacbookHow much and which HDD can I put in if I wanted to upgrade mine up to 100gb? Actually HDD's don't come in 100gb does it?
patseguin said:Pretty sure it only takes up to 2GB RAM.
patseguin said:Pretty sure it only takes up to 2GB RAM.
Josias said:You can upgrade the following things:
RAM (up to 4 GB)
HDD (up to 200 GB)
Optical drive (some companies will install a 8x DVD+/-RW DL drive for you)
You can't upgrade the video card, since it's soldered onto the motherboard, so is your Core Duo processor. You can get a HD mod for the screen, but I wouldn't do that. Dunno why.
google.omtaybone said:200GB?!?!?! Where can I find that hard drive? If I remember correctly, 160GB is the max at this point, and Apple only offers up to 120GB.
taybone said:200GB?!?!?! Where can I find that hard drive? If I remember correctly, 160GB is the max at this point, and Apple only offers up to 120GB.
Josias said:You can upgrade the following things:
RAM (up to 4 GB)
HDD (up to 200 GB)
Optical drive (some companies will install a 8x DVD+/-RW DL drive for you)
You can't upgrade the video card, since it's soldered onto the motherboard, so is your Core Duo processor. You can get a HD mod for the screen, but I wouldn't do that. Dunno why.
flyers1 said:I replaced my hard drive with a Seagate Momentus 5400.2 120gb drive. No problems whatsoever. Seagate is one of the best drive companies so don't worry about using them.
I haven't seen any complaints about their drives in this forum. Who has had issues?
MACBOOK RAM CANNOT BE UPGRADED BEYOND 3GB, BUT THERE ARE NO 1.5GB CHIPS SO IT MAXES OUT AT 2GB!!!!!!!!!!!
Please note: SDRAM chips must be of equal size!
Please also note: buy.com has a pair of 1GB SDRAM Chip for $80... enjoy:
http://www.buy.com/prod/crucial-2gb...m-ddr2-laptop-memory/q/loc/101/202812946.html
Seriously people, do some research before you post. A simple google search came up with this as the #1 search result:
This was taken from a zdnet blog found at:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=321
October 30th, 2006
Inside the MacBook Pros 3GB RAM limitation
Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 5:00 am
One of the big new features in the Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro is the new 3GB RAM maximum that it supports. But 3GB is a funny number for a machine with 2 RAM slots. Why not max that puppy out with two 2GB sticks - for a total of 4GB?
MacFixIt has learned that it's not a physical space limitation and that both of the new MBP's RAM slots are large enough to accommodate the bigger 2GB modules.
Although the Intel 945PM chipset can physically handle 4GB of DDR2 RAM, there is the potential for "memory overlap" when more than 3GB of RAM is installed.
a number of items that must be stored in physical RAM space, and when RAM reaches 4 GB, there is some overlap. In other words, in a 3 GB RAM configuration, there is no overlap with the memory ranges required for certain system functions. Between 3 GB and 4 GB, however, system memory attempts to occupy space that is already assigned to these functions.
An interesting addendum to the RAM story is that Apple's 3GB RAM upgrade is actually competitively priced compared to what you find on the open market. Apple charges US$575 to upgrade from 2GB to 3GB of RAM and a 2GB SO-DIMM sells for US$625 at NewEgg.com.
Check the dates on the posts. 4GB sticks were a lot more expensive over a year ago.whoever said that 4gb of ram is 3k has no clue about this subject.
Good point, that is very true. Thank goodness for the drop in price, otherwise I would have no upgrade options at all.Check the dates on the posts. 4GB sticks were a lot more expensive over a year ago.