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HI guys,
I have the 13" i5 2.3 ghz MBP from 2011, I mainly use this for coding but I am planning to upgrade this machine to use it for some audio recording ( my windows machine which i use for audio recording keeps crashing so Ive decided to ditch it). I have an external audio card(echo audiofire 4). I plan to get an external monitor as well
I plan to upgrade to 8gb of RAM(which I have identified through crucial.com)
I have two questions:
(1) I plan on upgrading my hard drive from the 320 gb 5400 rpm to 750 gb 7200 rpm(cant afford an SSD right now). I have read conflicting reports on upgrading the hard drive to this spec. Are there hard drives with this spec that people have successfully upgraded to? if so which model?
(2) I took the option of having snow leapord installed on my machine when apple sent it to me, so I dont have an install disk. How can i backup everything to shift to the new hard drive?
cheers
I have the 13" i5 2.3 ghz MBP from 2011, I mainly use this for coding but I am planning to upgrade this machine to use it for some audio recording ( my windows machine which i use for audio recording keeps crashing so Ive decided to ditch it). I have an external audio card(echo audiofire 4). I plan to get an external monitor as well
I plan to upgrade to 8gb of RAM(which I have identified through crucial.com)
I have two questions:
(1) I plan on upgrading my hard drive from the 320 gb 5400 rpm to 750 gb 7200 rpm(cant afford an SSD right now). I have read conflicting reports on upgrading the hard drive to this spec. Are there hard drives with this spec that people have successfully upgraded to? if so which model?
(2) I took the option of having snow leapord installed on my machine when apple sent it to me, so I dont have an install disk. How can i backup everything to shift to the new hard drive?
cheers