Updating First gen macbook

cmmabb · Apr 17, 2008

I have a first generation macbook with a 80 g hard drive and 1g of ram. I was looking to upgrade both, I was wondering what would be the largest hard drive I could put in my macbook and how much ram. Also what are some websites that are good to buy from and what brand of hard drive?

Thanks

lil' brudder · Apr 17, 2008

I bought a 2GB ram module (max supported by your macbook since you have a first gen) on ebay for $25 and newegg sells hard drives relatively cheap (no size limit, but 250 is the biggest that you can get right now for anywhere near a price that isn't ridiculous)

cmmabb · Apr 17, 2008

Ok thanks, so the first gen macbooks a 250 g hard drive will fit inside where my 80 g is?

xraydoc · Apr 17, 2008

cmmabb said:
Ok thanks, so the first gen macbooks a 250 g hard drive will fit inside where my 80 g is?

2x1GB modules will give you the best performance. You can put up to a 320GB drive in your machine currently, and later this spring the 9.5mm 500GB 2.5" HDs will be available.

Personally, I like OWC for memory and drives.

lil' brudder · Apr 17, 2008

just make sure you get a 2.5" SATA hard drive and you should be good. It doesn't matter what speed, but at least get 5400 RPM (which is what your computer likely shipped with)

cmmabb · Apr 19, 2008

thanks, i noticed an option for 8 or 16mb cache does that make a difference if so which one do I need

CWallace · Apr 19, 2008

16MB will be a bit faster for data access since it caches more.

Make sure the drive height is 9.5mm (which almost all are).

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