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<blockquote data-quote="GK27V6" data-source="post: 717960" data-attributes="member: 61812"><p>I've recently purchased a refurb'd MacBook a couple weeks ago. It has 1GB of RAM and a 120GB HD. At the moment this is more than enough for me as a seventeen year-old so I don't do anything on my Mac that requires more than a gig of RAM. However in the future when I enter university that may not be the case, and for that I have noobish questions, sorry.</p><p></p><p>First one: I know that MacBooks' RAM can be upgraded to 4GB, but I have the 2.16GHz model, which as most of us know here is not the most recent model. So does that one have a worse RAM limitation, i.e. I believe I read somewhere it is 2GB?</p><p></p><p>Second: If I plan on upgrading the hard drive, can I take the 250GB HD from the black MacBook and slap it into mine? Or, in that case, any other 2.5" HD I find at the local store?</p><p>In addition to the hard drive question, I'd transfer all of my data from my Macintosh HD partition (i.e. I won't transfer my Windows partion*) to the new one. Is it possible to copy all of my data from my current drive to the new one, then insert the new drive and then it will boot up? Or would I have to reinstall Leopard and then migrate all the data?</p><p></p><p>*I'd make a fresh, larger partition for Windows once the new HD is installed</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GK27V6, post: 717960, member: 61812"] I've recently purchased a refurb'd MacBook a couple weeks ago. It has 1GB of RAM and a 120GB HD. At the moment this is more than enough for me as a seventeen year-old so I don't do anything on my Mac that requires more than a gig of RAM. However in the future when I enter university that may not be the case, and for that I have noobish questions, sorry. First one: I know that MacBooks' RAM can be upgraded to 4GB, but I have the 2.16GHz model, which as most of us know here is not the most recent model. So does that one have a worse RAM limitation, i.e. I believe I read somewhere it is 2GB? Second: If I plan on upgrading the hard drive, can I take the 250GB HD from the black MacBook and slap it into mine? Or, in that case, any other 2.5" HD I find at the local store? In addition to the hard drive question, I'd transfer all of my data from my Macintosh HD partition (i.e. I won't transfer my Windows partion*) to the new one. Is it possible to copy all of my data from my current drive to the new one, then insert the new drive and then it will boot up? Or would I have to reinstall Leopard and then migrate all the data? *I'd make a fresh, larger partition for Windows once the new HD is installed [/QUOTE]
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