Looking to Upgrade My Old Macbook, Help?

[RushRealSlow]

Okay, so I'm finishing up my last year of my undergrad degree in English education. When I graduate, it's off to the real world and finding a teaching job. My macbook was the lowest end I could buy at the time and I think it might be time to upgrade it. Here are some specs:
Processor: 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 1GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
and I'm not sure what the video card is or the memory on my mac for the hard drive (all I know is I never have more than 5gb available!)

The only thing I would use my computer for is general use and to play WoW. I was thinking about upgrading to the lowest version of the imac:
Processor is 2.66 GHz and 2gb of RAM with a better video card and 260gb of hard drive space (1,000 refurbished.) Do you think the upgrade is worth the money? Also, how would WoW run on this?

 

[briansolomon]

Bump the Ram to 2 GB or even 4 GB and see how you like it. I don't think you'll benefit too much from a new machine.

Also, new harddrives are very affordable and easy to install. Check newegg/Amazon for combo deals

 

[RushRealSlow]

Would I be able to upgrade that generation of macbook to 4gb of ram? Also, how do I know what to buy / what is capatable with my machine? I didn't know that you could upgrade the RAM on a mac, so this sounds like a solution to my problem

 

[pukifloyd]

sell your current mac on ebay and buy a new refurbished MBP ...they're awesome and then buy an external display...

 

[iMav]

Any of the current gen Macs will play WoW acceptably. There really is no wrong answer. Just buy what you want. My only suggestion is to get 4GB of ram.

 

[kate-willbury]

lol. yet another 'i need an upgrade' thread where the user does absolutely nothing on his/her computer except surfing and playing WoW.

you don't need the upgrade. save your money and do something worthwhile with it.

 

[js81]

Best advice I can give is to keep what you got and put a little money into it in a hard drive and memory. It CAN support 4GB of RAM, but it may only be able to utilize about 3.X GB of it. You need a SATA hard drive - you probably currently have 80GB. Here are my suggestions (both from Newegg - can't go wrong with them!)

Hard drive: WD Scorpio Blue 320GB - $59.99 and free shipping

(NOTE: You CAN get a faster, 7200rpm hard drive, but these are more expensive and eat your battery faster. Sometimes you may get a vibration from them, too. Others will probably disagree with me on this, but this is my experience and I actually HAVE a white Macbook. However, it does have more cache and is faster... your call there.)

Memory: PNY Optima 2GB DDR2 667MHz (2) - $19.99 each after rebate (buy 2)

(NOTE: If you want to save a little money, get a 1GB stick as the second one, though I would recommend just spending a bit more to get a matched pair.)

Good luck! I'm sure you'll find these upgrades will make a HUGE difference in your Macbook - I know the memory really sped mine up!

 

[MacKiddyWiddy]

I agree with callum, buy a nice new imac