Looking at upgrading the HD on my Macbook to a 320/500gb as i have just bought SL.

Macbook is last model before 1st unibody.2.4ghz one.

Which one do i upgrade to and where from?

I put this one in my last MBP so should be fine and is a straight swap

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?SG-74500

Time machine backups will help with transfer too

Carl

Edited 4 February, 201016 yr by vRSCarl

They are all much of a muchness really... just make sure you get a 7200 RPM one - if it replaces a 5200 you will notice the machine being snappier and more responsive

I put this one in my last MBP so should be fine and is a straight swap

http://www.novatech....e.html?SG-74500

Time machine backups will help with transfer too

Carl

Ordered the 320gb version and should be up and running with SL if it arrives tomorrow.

A bit of a hijack, sorry...

Anyway, my MBP is the same generation as the OP's, but it's the 2,5 GHz version. I want to upgrade from 2gb RAM, does anybody know what is the biggest supported possible upgrade 4 or 8gb? I need the 200 pin DDR2 667 SO DIMM chips, right? Do you know if DDR2 800 chips will work? They are a lot cheaper.

A bit of a hijack, sorry...

Anyway, my MBP is the same generation as the OP's, but it's the 2,5 GHz version. I want to upgrade from 2gb RAM, does anybody know what is the biggest supported possible upgrade 4 or 8gb? I need the 200 pin DDR2 667 SO DIMM chips, right? Do you know if DDR2 800 chips will work? They are a lot cheaper.

Think you can have 4gb of Ram or max 6gb if using 2 gb for graphics.

800 with work but will drop down to 667 speed.

Your looking at around £60-75 for 2 x 2gb.

Take it to an Apple store and get a genius to help you

Maximum you can have in a Non Unibody MBP or MB is 4GB DDR2 and im 99% certain the max is 667mhz

If you put 8GB in the System will "see" it but will only utilise 4GB

The newer Unibody style ones will accept upto 8GB DDR3 1067mhz.

Hope that helps.

Carl

Thanks!

Anybody knows for sure if I can or cannot use 800MHz chips (and downgrade them to 667MHZ)?!

EDIT: I did some research and found out that it definitely won't run on 800MHz, but couldn't actually find out whether 800MHz downgraded to 667MHZ chips will work...

Edited 14 February, 201016 yr by Karaibrahim

Im sure 800mhz are only DDR3 Ram in which case the answer is definately no.

You would be better off just buying a Matched pair of 4GB DDR2 667mhz sticks so that you can get the correct matching CAS Latency etc and one stick isn't under performing.

Even though they might be both 667mhz they can be vastly different

HTH

Carl

Thanks again!

I wanted the 800MHz chips so badly, because they are ~30% cheaper... I will have to splash out for the 667Mhz, then.