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<blockquote data-quote="Lex" data-source="post: 977896" data-attributes="member: 133308"><p>specs & info:</p><p>2.4 ghz macbook aluminum edition 2 gig of ram, Snow Leopard.</p><p>-> just erased everything to 0, installed leopard clean install and upgraded to SL.</p><p>It works fine, I just want it to keep it that way. The following questions are not urgent or necessary, but will help me use my mac in the proper way. </p><p></p><p>questions:</p><p>1. Best way to upgrade ram? Cheapest / durability etc. Give me some tips please ;D.</p><p></p><p>2. I remember installing new firmware for my macbook. However, when after my clean reinstall I did not see this update in the software update list.</p><p></p><p>3. I have installed so many updates during the past 4 months, now turning my mac on it only updated like 6 things (10.6.2 was in there though). Please explain me why?</p><p></p><p>4. Scipts. I don't really know what they are but I heard they are good for your computer. I also heard that you sometimes need to manually run them. How should I do this and why? (I rather don't install onyx etc. to do this)</p><p></p><p>5. Preferences can slow down your computer. Which one should I really turn of to increase speed.?</p><p></p><p>6. How do I remove languages. I hear they take up a lot of space.</p><p></p><p>7. If I want to dual boot windows 7 (I need it for school to run SolidWorks :S);</p><p>7.1 What is the best application to do so? (Boot camp / parallels / others you heard of)</p><p>7.2 Slow down my computer?</p><p>7.3 Is there a way to get the drivers for a macbook for 64 bit?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Some more questions may follow =). Thanks for helping me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lex, post: 977896, member: 133308"] specs & info: 2.4 ghz macbook aluminum edition 2 gig of ram, Snow Leopard. -> just erased everything to 0, installed leopard clean install and upgraded to SL. It works fine, I just want it to keep it that way. The following questions are not urgent or necessary, but will help me use my mac in the proper way. questions: 1. Best way to upgrade ram? Cheapest / durability etc. Give me some tips please ;D. 2. I remember installing new firmware for my macbook. However, when after my clean reinstall I did not see this update in the software update list. 3. I have installed so many updates during the past 4 months, now turning my mac on it only updated like 6 things (10.6.2 was in there though). Please explain me why? 4. Scipts. I don't really know what they are but I heard they are good for your computer. I also heard that you sometimes need to manually run them. How should I do this and why? (I rather don't install onyx etc. to do this) 5. Preferences can slow down your computer. Which one should I really turn of to increase speed.? 6. How do I remove languages. I hear they take up a lot of space. 7. If I want to dual boot windows 7 (I need it for school to run SolidWorks :S); 7.1 What is the best application to do so? (Boot camp / parallels / others you heard of) 7.2 Slow down my computer? 7.3 Is there a way to get the drivers for a macbook for 64 bit? Some more questions may follow =). Thanks for helping me. [/QUOTE]
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