I think it is time to upgrade my MacBook Pro.I have a mid 2009 configuration: 2.53 GHz Dual Core Intel processor, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA 9400 (256MB), and 250GB HDD.I am planning to upgrade to an SSD and 8GB RAM.Can you intelligent MacRumor readers tell me:A) The best sub-$400 SSD that is over 100GBandB) The best sub-$200 8GB RAM sticks for my MBP. Requirements are
View 6 RepliesJust thinking down the road, so please bear with me. Regarding adding a HD and possibly ram at a later date. I have a couple questions...1.) If adding or replacing in the first year, will that void your warranty??2.) How is the ram module configured on a MacBook pro?? If it cam with 4 GB then can I just add a 4 GB card or do you have to get a straight 8 GB card??3.) If upgrading to a bigger HD, can you just do a backup restore or do you have to totally reinstall from the scratch??
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to upgrade the SSD from 64gb to 128gb on the MacBook Air (mid-2011) on the basic configuration? I've ran out far too quickly on the 64gb and would really love for the extra storage space. Could I also get this upgrade via Apple if doing it myself would void the warranty?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've got a simple question: is it at all possible (in whatever way) to upgrade the memory (RAM) of a Mid 2009 MBA (2.13GHz C2D)? It is fitted with 2GB RAM and I am running into its limitations.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am wondering how hard/expensive it would be to get my MacBook uprgaded to an SSD, i have heard they are much more reliable?!?!
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MacBook, Mac OS X(10.6.2)
Is there any way to upgrade the graphics card in the 2009 MacBook Pro?
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan I upgrade to a hard drive that has SATA 3 interface with my Macbook Pro mid 2009 model?
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macbook pro
I recently picked up a 17" 2009 unibody MacBook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8ghz, 4gb RAM, SuperDrive and a Samsung 1TB hard drive. The system did not come with the original hard drive and I don't have any other hard drives to test and verify that the new larger hard drive is the cause. I have tried a clean install of Snow Leopard, Lion and even Mountain Lion but no matter what my fans always running at max speed (5k+ RPM). I have looked at iStat and the temps of any of the components in the machine never show more than 42*C so the fans should never be running at full blast. Oddly enough smcFanControl shows 0* temp but fan speds for both left and right are always 5.5k+ and very noisy. Using HDD Fan Control I am able to get at least the right fan to run at a controlable speed but its silence is drowned out by the left fan that still runs on full blast. I have already done multiple SMC resets and PRAM resets with no change in the condition. These noisey fans are driving me insane! I have run every available update as well. Is there a chance that the hard drive or something elses temp not being supported or detectable by OSX is causing the fans to default to the fail safe constant high speed?!
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.8GHz Core2Duo
I'm unable to upgrade from my 10.6.8 configuration on my Mac Pro running OS X Server to OS X Lion Server. I've purchased both Lion and Lion Server, but each time I attempt to run the updates to 10.7+ I get error messages saying to install 10.7 or to download Lion Server - though when I do that it tells me that I need to install 10.7. How to migrate to Lion Server.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have last year's MacBook Pro, that has 13" screen, 2.53 ghz, 4 gb ram, with the 9400 video. I'm wondering if there's compelling enough reason to upgrade it to the newly released 2010 model 13" 2.66 ghz, 4 gb ram, with the 310m video that would get 10 hours of battery rather than my present 7. The other thing I'm considering is when I bought mine I opted for the 5400 rpm hard drive, because I didn't want to lose an hour of my battery. If I do the above upgrade, I'd be apt to also go to 7200 rpm drive, as I think i'd see a noticeable performance boost, and still see a battery increase over my previous model.
View 19 Replies View RelatedNeed official route to upgrade my hard drive in my iMac.
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iMac, iOS 5.1.1
I'm still hanging in there with my powermac g5 from 2004 (dual 1.8 g5, 2gb ram, ati 9800xt 256mb).
I do a lot of photo processing, and some video editing. This summer i'll be upgrading my SLR (10mp to 15mp), and I'll also be shooting 720p 30fps video.
I'm thinking I should upgrade my computer the same time as the camera. The g5 has leopard and CS3, Apeture, Final cut pro. these programs are really chugging along (sigh, the g5 used to be SOOO fast).
SO my question is... will the new imac (3.06, 4gb ram, ATI HD) be a noticeable bump in performance, worth the upgrade? Also, how much should I sell my g5 for (including the aluminum 20" apple cinema display).
i wanted to upgrade my hard drive will any hardrive fit it or has it got to be something special?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I've got an iMac 27" late 2009 with these: Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3Â Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB and I would like to upgrade my "ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB" to something higher with 2 GB. My question is: is it possible? Like taking off the screen and display and replacing the old video card with a new one without any issues?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I want to configure my email on my new mac. I want to make it just like on the iphone and put my yahoo account but it says that it cannot connect to the server (the yahoo one I guess?) Is it possible to use yahoo accunt on the mail ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just have a brief question. I'm a light user and I want to purchase a new MBA 13' base config with 4 GB RAM. Would this be good enough to play sims 3 smoothly?
View 13 Replies View RelatedIf there is a page with all the trackpad shortcuts. I know two finger scroll, but I think there is some way to use two fingers to right-click, and something else to zoom.
View 14 Replies View RelatedJust got one of the new white macbooks - it's great so far. Most of the important things I have figured out, but unable to get my 3 USB Modem working - it just sits there and flashes at me. Wondered if any of you wise old Applers have come across a solution? Grateful for any advice. 3, despite saying that it works are useless.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a new macbook pro i5, and the question is if it is possible to change the configuration of what programs will use the nvidia gpu. This is, because I have some writing program that really dont need the nvidia gpu, and the mac use it innecesarily.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just started my macbook air first time and I wrongly selected another keyboard instead of US during the auto configuration...how to go back and set the US keyboard layout?
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MacBook Air
unsure if this has already been done, but i wouldn't mind having MBAir owners post their xBench results here...i would like to have the results for all 8 configurations eventually..shouldn't be too difficult to get all of the info I'll start it off with the xBench results for the rev B 1.86 SSD config.
View 24 Replies View RelatedSo a little bit about my situation: I have a macbook pro and recently moved my iTunes library to an external drive since I was running out of space on my computer. Obviously I changed the library folder to the one on the external in preferences ect. The only problem is that I'm not carrying around the external with me all the time, in fact, recently I connected the hard drive to sync the month's worth of new music I got and even after changing the library folder to the external one, only about half the songs from my whole library would play.
It's really a pain to add new music to the hard drive too because it keeps prompting me to replace the files. Long story short, I'm obviously not going about this right. Is anyone in the same situation as me/do you know of a better way to keep track of a library on external? If I didn't explain clearly enough (which i probably didnt) dont hesitate to ask.
I'm purchasing a Macbook Pro and I will be using it primarily for video and photo editing. I will need strong hd write performance for video encoding. I would also like a very fast load time for my apps such as photoshop and final cut. I am considering SSD drive for fast load of my apps. I would put the OS and all apps on the SSD. I would get a second drive, the fast Momentus XT from Seagate, and install it where the DVD drive is currently located. I would use the second drive for all data such as photos and video. This would give me fast write speeds for encoding and transferring video and photos from the camera to the MBP.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've always used airport express but lately I've been noticing big drop in speeds when I'm in the upstairs rooms. I do not feel like spending $175 on another apple router, how much trouble is it to go with linksys? How much settings configurations will I be getting myself into?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI want to be able to choose which programs I wan tot run at start up because after 6 months of usage it takes about 2plus minutes for a cold system to start up and 5 seconds to shut down. I wan tot speed up the startup and I think I have to many programs runnning at startup. On my PC I used to control that from sys config,is there an equivalent in Lion.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3), startup/shutdown
I read that the new 6 core Mac Pro's use 32nm technology.
I guess this means a different mobo to the one in the 2009 4 core models?
Apple are offering an upgrade from 4 core to 6 core on the new models, so I'm wondering if I could do the same to my 2009 model or would it not be as simple to swap out the mobo as I think?
11 / 6" default configuration - Can it handle Photoshop CS5.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI need to change the display configuration of my macbook but I can't see to open the preferences (because the configuration is wrong!) - what can I do?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a 13" MacBook Pro with a Magic Mouse and wireless keyboard. I would like to buy another Magic Mouse and wireless keyboard for my office. What I need to know is, can I have both pairs setup on my Mac so that when I go from home to the office they will work without having to reconfigure the peripherals?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for a solution to my WiFi internet connection. I haven't used my MacBook Pro laptop in the last week or so - which means there is no way I have done any changes to the network configuration. However when I now try to connect to the internet via a Hub - which is previously set up on the macbook and worked no problem - is now not working at all.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
