Help!! I have an old macbook 3,1 and I need to upgrade it but have no idea if it meets the specs and where I begin!! CAn anyone help me?
How can I tell whether my macbook is able to be upgraded? It won't sync with my iphone because I"m running 10.5.8 but have no idea if it can be upgraded. please please help an ignorant apple user!!!
The earliest MacBook 13" coreduo first year models from 1.83GHz processor on up, can use Snow Leopard 10.6.8; the computer should see a RAM upgrade to at least 2GB RAM (replace both chips) with the correct supported RAM kind, grade, specs, for the machine.
The Snow Leopard retail DVD is (or was yesterday) available from the Apple Store online for about $20. If you look up your MacBook by Serial number from a site that can help do that, the information can then be used to find out more about the computer and what kind of update/upgrade may be possible. Hardware & software.
With the serial number, found in System Profiler (about this mac... more info from apple menubar) you can copy paste that into a web page such as this http://www.powerbookmedic.com/identify-mac-serial.php for more details. Then move on to everymac.com and look up your exact series of MacBook in their database online. Or get Mactracker application as a download from http://mactracker.ca so you can see a variety of information in your computer about most Apple computers.
For upgrading RAM yourself, see the MacBook area and your specific model at iFixit http://www.ifixit.com/Device/MacBook or check Apple Support for MacBook (your vintage) to see how they say to upgrade RAM.
About your iPhone and support with Snow Leopard 10.6.8:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
Good luck & happy computing!
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