Apple Mac Book White 13" 2009

Hi,
Am new to this board. Looking at purchasing the above model through Apple and would like advise whether or not to upgrade the memory from 2 to 4 and the hard drive from 120 to 160 (if at all) when I make this purchase. The reason I ask this is daughter loves playing Sims and with the new Sims 3 coming out I have seen we need 2 of ram minimum anyway to run it. There will be plenty of photos, vids, and u tube mind you viewing added into this equation as well. I always have my Dell PC to fall back on for storage. Hope all this info helps. But she is dead keen to play sims on the new mac book at least.

caitlin1 wrote:
Thanks for that. So are you saying leave the memory alone?? And I intended to customise this before I get it with a larger hard drive/Ram ...only if I have too. So do I customise the hard drive or leave alone when ordering? Many thanks..
I'm saying you might try just do both as aftermarket addition.
I don't like custom ordering a computer. In many cases that means waiting for it rather than just accepting one that is in stock.
I don't really think of the 160 GB drive as much of an upgrade. For Apple's memory upgrade price from 2GB to4 GB, I could purchase at least 2 2x2GB kits and have the original 2x1GB just in case. For a little more than the price (at least US prices) of just the 4 GB factory upgrade I could install an aftermarket 2x2GB memory kits and install a 250 or 320 GB hard drive.
It's actually not that hard to do and there's a certain satisfaction when you do it successfully yourself.

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