Are these upgrades compatible with my Macbook?

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Hey everyone :)

My white Macbook (late 2007) is beginning to run really slowly and as I've begun doing a bit of photo editing it's just not fast enough anymore.

It currently has the standard 2x512mb RAM and a 80Gb 5400 rpm harddrive. I'd like to upgrade to 4GB memory and a 7200 rpm hdd and afterwards do a clean install of Lion (instead my current 10.5 Leopard).

Will these two fit my Macbook?

Kingston ValueRAM 4 GB (2 x 2 GB) DDR II SDRAM Memory Kit ( KVR667D2S5K2/4G ) - RAM Memory - Kingston Memory

ST9250410AS Momentus 7200.4 SATA 3Gb/s 250-GB Hard Drive | Seagate

Thanks a lot for helping :)

Ps. Would I be able to use a SSD with my type of Macbook?
 

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Both look fine to me. I'd advise against an SSD drive for this computer, only because the cost of an SSD drive would quickly exceed the value of the computer.
 
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Did you partition the drive in disk utility?

No. I guess I should have? :)

Edit: I've just checked up on the formatting procedure. Is it correct, that I can only format my new drive, if I plug it in using usb?

Edit #2: Found this thread, which answers my question. I'll try that and report back. Thanks, John :)
 
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Sure thing, it worked! Thanks a bunch, I really appreciate your help. Great forum :)
 

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