Hey guys. And girls.
I just bought myself a Macbook secondhand on ebay for $380, it's the 2.1GHz Macbook 4,1. Comes with an 80GB 5,400rpm hard disk and 2GB of memory. Should arrive early next week!
It's going to be a companion to my main desktop computer, which is an 8 year old Power Mac G5 - it's got a nice fast 1TB hard disk, of which I've used 750GB, so really a laptop can't be my main computer at the moment because they just can't store enough at the moment, especially if I wanted a 7,200rpm drive.
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My plan is to upgrade my little Macbook to 6GB of memory and to put in a 80-120GB SSD, then sit back, relax and enjoy. Probably going to install a fresh copy of Lion on it, switch on the full disk encryption, and hopefully be able to upgrade to Mountain Lion when it comes out (I know that it can't boot into 64 bit mode with a hack though, damn you Apple!) And also might upgrade from the combo drive to a Super Drive at some point, they aren't that expensive, and back in the day I did some tech work for an Apple retailer so I've replaced several dozen MB optical drives before
Anyway, any suggestions/advice?
I've also previously owned a Core i5 Macbook Pro, by the way, but it was stolen several years ago, hence me being on the old G5 (it's going to get an SSD for the boot drive at some point, too.)
I just bought myself a Macbook secondhand on ebay for $380, it's the 2.1GHz Macbook 4,1. Comes with an 80GB 5,400rpm hard disk and 2GB of memory. Should arrive early next week!
It's going to be a companion to my main desktop computer, which is an 8 year old Power Mac G5 - it's got a nice fast 1TB hard disk, of which I've used 750GB, so really a laptop can't be my main computer at the moment because they just can't store enough at the moment, especially if I wanted a 7,200rpm drive.
(.)My plan is to upgrade my little Macbook to 6GB of memory and to put in a 80-120GB SSD, then sit back, relax and enjoy. Probably going to install a fresh copy of Lion on it, switch on the full disk encryption, and hopefully be able to upgrade to Mountain Lion when it comes out (I know that it can't boot into 64 bit mode with a hack though, damn you Apple!) And also might upgrade from the combo drive to a Super Drive at some point, they aren't that expensive, and back in the day I did some tech work for an Apple retailer so I've replaced several dozen MB optical drives before
Anyway, any suggestions/advice?
I've also previously owned a Core i5 Macbook Pro, by the way, but it was stolen several years ago, hence me being on the old G5 (it's going to get an SSD for the boot drive at some point, too.)
