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I have a MacBook (black cover) with Mac OSX 10.5.8, Intelcore processor.  It has 2 mb Ram (2 – 1mbcards) and a 250gb hard drive.  I would like to up grade my Ram to 4 or 8 mb ram and a 500gb hard drive.  Can anyone suggest brand or site to buy thesei tems?  Thanks.

Yes they make a 4gb and a 2gb card. Check out the pictures on the right of the page. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/MacBook/DDR2/
And it's gb for gigabytes (1000 megabytes) not mb for megabytes. The last one I had that took 4mb chips was the old Quadra 950. Of course it had 16 RAM slots.
Here's instructions on replacing the RAM http://homeoffice.consumerelectronicsnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=44404
Here's instructions on replacing the hard drive http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=45088

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