i have a new MBP and i got the bare base one, right after they had the spec bumps and i want to juice up the computer a little. aka ram from 4 GB to 8gb and the hard drive to at lease 500gb. does anyone have the part numbers to do this type of stuff without going through the expensive apple store?
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There are several threads here which talk about upgrading the HDD. Seagate has a popular one and so does Hitachi. Do a quick search in the MacBook Pro forum and you'll find it.
there is a wide variety of brands that you could use for both RAM and HDD. I have heard good things about OWC and Crucial for memory, and the Western digital scorpio blue is a nice 500 gig drive. Just curious, what are you doing that you need 8GB of RAM? That is a ton of memory, and I get by on 2 gigs.
I would invest in a new HD before ram. Unless you are doing almost impossibly crazy stuff 4 should suffice. If you have to money, get an ssd the speed bump is amazing. But they are pretty expensive usually $200 for 80 gb and $400 for 160 gb. But it'll be worth it when you are booting in 15 seconds and opening photoshop instantly. But if that is too much, try a hybrid drive or one running at a higher rpm.
I use fusion alot as well as multitask like crazy.
mainly ripping movies from dvds itunes and fusion to run some windows programs. the ram is more of a want than a need. i do need a bigger hard drive though. unless of course i get my mac mini running as a server then i can get by with almost nothing.