Ok thank you. I have other computers (2 mac airs, and a hp)
How hard is it to change the hard drive to an ssd?
I've never done this but I know my mac air with ssd is incredibly fast.
Would osx need to be reinstalled?
Would you buy the ssd from owc or somewhere else?
SSD is easy - and you can clone your install using Disk Utility.
RAM - the most you can physically use is 8GB. Your computer wont boot with 16GB.
All the Macbooks have shared VRAM and RAM so there is no GPU. Just a FYI. I wouldn't personally put 16GB into that machine. Seems a little overkill when 8GB is only $43.
No GPU? I'm pretty sure my Mac book as a 320m GPU with256 mob of sdram.....
It's integrated graphics shared with the system RAM.
It's my wife's.
I've been teaching her a bit of photo editing.
She has a few photos as well but she mostly does web browsing.
I mean its only 50$ and I kind of an tempted to do it just to do it. However if there is no benefit then whats the point.
Also when I say photo editing I mean pretty light photoshop stuff. The gpu will probably limit her before the ram does. I mainly want the computer to run fast, and be capable of more intensive programs if we need. I do not think she will ever run cs6, after effects, light room, logic, iDVD, iTunes, safari while editing in iMovie and typing a paper.
She does open several tabs in safari often with one thing or so in the background but I want to rid her of the dreaded beach balls.