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    2009 13" white macbook upgrade?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by _aar0n_, Nov 9, 2010.

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    My girl's macbook has been kinda sluggish lately. She asked me if there was a way to make it faster. A quick Google search revealed her macbook's max RAM capacity is 2gb. So I thought maybe we can upgrade the hard drive to a solid state drive. Is that possible? If so, what do you guys recommend we buy?
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    It depends when in 2009 the Mac Book was purchased but mostly like 4 GB if it's DDR2, and 8 GB DDR3 if it's very late 2009

    As for the SSD, I would wait as they are going to release 10.7 soon which supposedly have TRIM support, as 10.6 Snow Leopard does not support TRIM = shortened SSD life.
     
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    Do you think we should take it to Apple for them to upgrade the RAM if it is possible?
     
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    All you have to do is take the bottom panel off(8 screws). Check out this teardown: MacBook Unibody Model A1342 Teardown - iFixit
     
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    And once the bottom panel is removed, the hard drive is there too.
     
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