Old MacBook black A1181 upgradequestion.

Hi,
I have a MacBook black A1181. Model identifier is macbook1,1. Whats the year of this MacBook? What's the latest osx I can upgrade to? What's the max (or best size) memory I can upgrade to? Can I install ssd drive on it?
Thanks.
Jay

If you upgrade the HDD to an SSD, that can be a boost in performance at a price.
However, due to the limited data transfer speed to & from the hard drive bus, a
super fast rated SSD would not be the correct part. These have a slower 1.5Gbps
Hard Drive Interface.
The OWC macsales site has some links, information (video) from specific product
pages that are free, which could be helpful to upgrade a HDD or an SSD. And of
course they offer certain items that probably could be purchased there or anywhere.
Tools, and instructional video; correct parts (I'd hope to get their OWC SSD for one
of my older portable Apple computers; a 'legacy' one for ATA-IDE PPC G4) and an
other place for a set of free repair guides for old MacBook, is http://ifixit.com site.
There are some advantages to Snow Leopard 10.6(.8) in the early MacBook 13
coreduo, in that is has greater support and later browsers, etc. If my MB1.1 had
a few hardware repairs done, I'd likely upgrade from Leopard 10.5.8, too. Mine
is the slower CPU White 1.83GHz coreduo, while the Black is 2.0GHz coreduo.
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