So I got my first laptop and decided to splurge and got a mac. Now it's great, works great, took me a while to get used to the OS but love my mac now. I use it predominantly for surfing and just basic but am also doing filmmaking. My friend has a macbook pro with 4gb ram and better proccessor, and we used that for film editing, but want to make upgrade mine into one as well (filmmaking laptop). I also may want to use it for gaming (starcraft), photoshop and just a whole bunch of apps and programs. Should I upgrade the ram, get it upgraded for me (get someone to put in the ram) should I even buy ram, is there anything I can do to make a faster processor? Also, my internet is kinda slow, anything I can do to speed it up? Finally, my mac sometimes lags when there's a lot off apps open so I was thinking of upgrading it. I don't have much of a budget (probably not even a 100) so I need something cheap, but don't want shotty second hand stuff. How much can I add, and what else can I do? On another note, Ive been using firefox as my default browser and have added a whole bunch off addons, any other programs I should get for firefox OR any programs I should get for my mac? Thanks!!!!
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Upgrading My Mac, What Do I Need?
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What akapaul said, but with your budget I'd say the RAM upgrades are the only things you may be able to afford. They can make a big difference though.
wait, what else could I get? Also about the internet connection and increasing my bandwith that would be really useful. Also, everytime I use my phone my internet signal is lost, disconnected. Any solution.
Sorry to keep this going so long, but what's an SSD. I'm a noob to macs and computers in general.
SSD = super sonic drive
Basically it is a very fast hard drive. You replace your macbook harddrive with an SSD and it will make your computer fly.
Lol. Really though, it stands for solid state drive, and uses flash memory instead of a spinning disk like a normal hard drive. For more info visit the wikipedia page about SSDs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
Internet issues
What are you using for your internet connection? Dial-up/DSL/Cable? You shouldn't be getting disconnected with the latter 2 if you use your phone. If you are on dial-up, definitely go with whatever broadband connection is available in your area that you can afford.
What are you using for your internet connection? Dial-up/DSL/Cable? You shouldn't be getting disconnected with the latter 2 if you use your phone. If you are on dial-up, definitely go with whatever broadband connection is available in your area that you can afford.