I stand corrected. after googling around I found out that the unibody MBPs can accept 12.5mm hard drives, but its not official from Apple.

for the previous gen MBP (non-unibody), only the 17" can accept the taller drive

why dont u go to the website n look at their prices? normally buying local is cheaper since no need to pay for shipping. unless you wanna go for brands like OWC, Crucial, then have to get online since they dont sell it in malaysia AFAIK

yeah, all the shops i see sell rm150-160

he said wanna upgrade external LCD... juz buy new one n plug-n-play lor.. hehe

those are really good pair of RAMs i want to get it too but shipping would be expensive. i wonder if whether we can share the shipping cost?

is it even possible? im not sure myself haha

TS do us a favour will u? launch the apps u've mentioned n try playing said video in realplayer. then launch Activity Monitor (use spotlight). on the top section sort by RSIZE, then at the bottom pick System Memory. take a screenshot n post it up here maybe we can try to determine ur problem

page out depends on the page in. but looking at ur apps i believe u have enough RAM and free HDD space so they shouldnt be a problem.

page in n page out doesnt stay the same. it depends on what the computer is doing. dun worry about that. also, a high page out is okay if its significantly less than page in. if page out is almost as big as page in, then u shud think abt upgrading ur RAM.

no need to wait until things go weird. as long as u're experiencing bad performance, take a screen shot. we wanna see what's happening when ur mac is slow. if its running fine, n u take the screenshot, it wouldnt help

displayport is VESA standard... only the mini-DP is apple's. which is now VESA's as well if i remember correctly. problem with HDMI is that the port takes up more space than miniDP n u know how apple likes thin products.

that's new to me . how come eh? i dont mean the ports, but do u mean HDMI tech can't output to a 30" monitor unless it's a tv?

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: Nov 29 2009, 04:08 PM

1. cannot upgrade the graphics. even service center cannot help u. the GPU is soldered to the motherboard..meaning if u wanna change the GPU u have to change the whole motherboard...including the CPU n such. dats y u should get AppleCare Protection Plan, cuz if GPU rosak, the whole thing have to change

2. i would recommend the brand Crucial but its very hard to get in malaysia. those normal kingston KVR, mushkin, corsair works as well. just make sure its this spec: DDR3, 1066 (or 1067) Mhz, SODIMM.

most notebook hdd's in the market are compatible. make sure its 2.5" SATA, 9mm (most under 500gb are 9mm btw...if u're buying >500gb better check 1st). price range uhh depends on how big u want ofcoz... 160gb is around rm170 and 500gb around rm280. as u can see 500gb has a very good value now... 56 cents per gb

for 500gb i'd recommend WD scorpio blue and hitachi 5k500. for 320gb, u can consider the faster 7200rpm models

320gb... for 5400rpm around rm190... 7200rpm around rm230

some 7200rpm drives got this extra feature to protect the HDD...something like shock protection. the MBP already has this built-in called Sudden Motion Sensor. so SMS will clash with the HDD's shock protection, making the HDD useless.

if i recall correctly there's already a fix for this, that's y u can use now

i think its this one

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/08/19/apple-...d-drive-issues/

i used 2x1gb kingston RAMs for my old MBP (2.0 Core Duo, ddr2 667)

according to c-zone pricelist they're selling 1GB DDR2-667 for rm85

from the apple online store, u have to ad rm551 to upgrade to 500GB drive hehe. so u're better off buying a hard drive from the forums or any computer shop around u. for 500gb most of us here are using Western Digital Scorpio Blue. Hitachi Travelstar 5k500 is a good choice too. both should be around RM270. buy the 500gb hard drive, clone it (read below) and swap it into ur MBP. the stock 250gb u can use as external HDD so u might wanna get a good enclosure for it u can also buy external drives that comes with a casing like WD passport (which has the scorpio blue inside) for around RM350, then open it up to get the actual hdd.

rm400 is too much ;p

time machine backs up everything unless u tell it not to. u're not wrong, but it isn't the ONLY way to do it. u can make a bootable clone of ur hard drive in disk utility. juz plug it in, "Restore" it from ur internal hdd, then swap. u can also swap 1st, boot from the OSX dvd n Restore the 500gb from ur stock hdd. obviously u'll need a casing for this

correct

i think any computer technician can do it..if they dunno how they can just google how (if they even bother lah). but i wont trust them bttr stick with apple resellers

yes, open up ur mac, take out the stock HDD and put in ur new HDD.

boot ur mac from the SL DVD (turn on, press n hold C), and plug in the time machine HDD in the USB/FW port. u'll reach a screen where it'll ask if u want to Restore ur mac from time machine.

mmm theoretically any DDR3 SODIMM works..but there are some incompatibility issues. i know got one forumer using that corsair RAM and it worked flawlessly from him/her

intel SSD works... not sure about other brands

i got a firewire 400-to-800 cable from Belkin for rm69. i dun like the 'adapter' look

this is what i did. clone the old HDD to the new one ('Restore' from disk utility), swap the new one into the Mac, then upgrade to SL. dont disturb the old HDD for two weeks or so...until u're really confident that u didn't lose anything cuz of the upgrade.

im glad i did this, bcuz i found out my 3g modem doesnt work in SL...so i just Restore the my new hdd from the old one and im back in leopard hehe

i think very hard to sell that since that's the minimum.. no one is going to upgrade TO 2gb ddr3

6-pin

oic. yeah i agree

Western Digital 500GB Scorpio Blue, or

Hitachi TravelStar 5k500