Mac Book A1181 BLACK (13-inch Late 2006)

Hi,
I'm looking into upgrading my old Macbook and would greatly appreachiate some help with that.
The machine is a black Macbook from late 2006 with a 13" Screen. It has the 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and 1Gb 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.
It is currently running Mac Os X 10.4.11, but I have ordered the Snow Lion System 10.6
(http://store.apple.com/at/product/MC573D/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard)
and would like to upgrade to that.
The reason for this is that some websites stopped working with 10.4 and the computer runns quite slow.
Now here are my questions: can I install the snow leopard system directly on a new Hard drive or do I have to install it on the old disk first?
I would like to upgrade also the hard drive and ram. Can I use any 2.5" Sata disk with a height of 9.5mm? And what about the ram chips, I understand that I can use at most 2GB on this machine?
Will these upgrades make the system run faster and more stable?
Thanks for helping me out!

You can upgrade from 10.4 straight to 10.6 with no problems as long as you have at least 1gb of RAM. Any program that runs under 10.4 should run under10.6. See this list for third party programs compatibility with 10.6: http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/ You might have to upgrade some drivers for printers, etc.... And you will have to install Rosetta if you have any Power PC applications
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/snow_leopard_installing_rosetta/
I recently upgraded an older MacBook (Early 2006 model 1,1) straight from 10.4 to 10.6.
To see if you have any Power PC programs go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info. When System Profiler comes up select Applications under Software. Then look under Kind to see if any of your applications are listed as Power PC.
Before Mac switched to Intel processors in 2006 they used Power PC processors from 1994 to 2005. Power PC 601 through 604, G3, G4 and G5. Applications written for the Power PC processors need the application called Rosetta to run on Intel processors. This was part of the Operating System in 10.4 and 10.5 but was an optional install in 10.6. With 10.7 Lion Apple dropped all support for Power PC applications.

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