New to MacBook and need so guidence
Hi Everyone!
I am gettinga mac book (early 2008) and wanted to know so information from you all if possible. It has 4GB of memory, which is the most you can get I hear, and it has a 120GB hard drive. Can that be upgraded? Intel Core 2 Duo is the processor-is that fast?? Can you upgrade a processor?? And I know that it is running OS 10.7.3 Lion. It already has installed Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 and Adobe Creative Suite5 Master Collection (Photoshop, Dreamweaver) so I hear I will be able to manipulate pictures, movies, and stuff.
I want this lap top for me and not have to share it with hubby and kids. I know that I will be using it for pictures and itunes and office work for myself. So if you all can tell me if this will be a good "Newbie Mac" computer to get.
Thanks Everyone!
You can do the hard drive yourself if you want, OWC has on-line videos of the install.
You could also consider an external drive instead...I bought one of OWC's Mercury Eliite Pro drives in September, 2 TB that I partitioned into 1.5 TB for Time Machine backups and 500 GB for a clone of the operating system and more storage space. Disk Utility, found in the Applications/Utilities folder, is very simple and easy to use.
If you go that route, just ask and many on here would be glad to walk you through it.
When I bought mine, it was something less than $200 for the drive, and just plugs right in.
So, one more thing for you to think about, it's all about more toys, more toys
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