One of the greatest benefits of having a macbook over a macbook pro was that the macbook was ironically rather easier to upgrade. The MacBook Pro might’ve had more expansion ports, but when it came to replacing the internal hard disk, the MacBook had the distinct advantage. Now, Apple has improved the MacBook Pro’s design, they too are easy to upgrade, apparently. I never intended my Macbook to become my main machine but as my G5 is about 5 years old and I’m waiting for Apple to release an affordable tower… I find myself with having to upgrade what was a very basic spec. 

The original specs of the machine were 2.0ghz, 1GB ram, 80gb hdd and a CDRW/DVD-Rom player. I already added 1GB, wasn’t too sure about adding another 1GB to bring the total to 3GB as it isn’t officially supported by Apple. I have since upgraded 2 iMacs at work to 3GB and the benefits of the extra GB were palpable. 

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