yes... his ram is DDR2 667MHz, i just gave him a guideline for the ram price.

In term of the ram layout, this is late 2006 model and should be single so-dimm (1x1GB) instead of 2x512MB.

See the Apple Spec here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/SP24

yeah...philipcs is right. My MBP has a single so-dimm 1GB.

i planning to addup ram for my macbookpro, using 4,1, wonder is the ram that used in mine core2duo mbp can buy from lowyat like pc ram or not? ^^

hey guys! my 1st gen macbook white HDD died on me few days ago. I need a new HDD pronto! any recommendation? i am looking at either Hitachi, Seagate or WD. 250GB will do. any other recommendation before i rush to lowyat to get it? and which shop to get it?

i think any notebook drives will work fine.

i'm using WD, stock macbooks come with hitachi and BTO mbp have seagates, and i believe a forumer here uses X25MG2 ssd

i bought mine from czone.. talk to scoot.. he can give u some recommendation/advice..

This post has been edited by jinaun: Sep 30 2009, 01:09 PM

alrighty! thanks dude!

Sorry guys, but seems like i lost the web address for fixing the mac's machine. can you all let me know?

ifixit.com

Anyone know where I can get this locally?

OptiBay for MBP 13"

OptiBay

Thanks alot..

hi all
need help n opinion here
i,m having macbook alu 13 inch,planning to upgrade HDD to 500GB and RAM to 4G.
-if i change the HDD,how can i copy the data from the original HDD to the new one???
-any recommended HDD type n RAM???

I just upgraded HDD & RAM too.

I copied using disk utility, its pretty simple, open disk utility, image the drive you want to your new one.
After its done, then fix it in. kau tim.

i just recently upgraded myself. here's my blog post hehe http://ninezerothree.wordpress.com/2009/10...ok-pro-upgrade/

the best way is to make a clone of the HDD. in my post, i swapped the HDD first and then Restore it from my old one. you can also Restore to the new HDD and then swap. both works.

recommended HDD: WD scorpio blue (quite a lot of us here using this) and hitachi travelstar 5k500...both should be around rm280 now. as for RAM, im currently looking for a pair myself...all the major brands (kingston, mushkin, etc) seem like no difference right now so i have yet to make a decision.

thanks bro crefigz & dvlzplayground. really helpful info

Yup, I followed that method too and its really easy. Everything gets backed up. No need to do any setups, just mirror, install it back and voila... working. I tend to recommend people to get the WD Scorpio Blues as they are pretty fast and quiet. Very value for money too.

Yea !! I'm using Scorpio Blue now, have many pieces of Scorpio Black now for sale, NEW.

Hi all,

Need some advice here since I'm a newbie to Macbook.

I recently cloned my existing 60GB Toshiba MK6034GSX HDD to an 80GB Fujitsu MHV2080BH HDD using external casing (both are SATAs).
Everything went well and I managed to boot from the external hdd without a hitch. I was quite happy since I've now
gotten an extra 20GB storage space and proceeded to swap both hdd but that's about the end of my joy.

I immediately noticed that the two drives are different as they are four 'extra' connector pins on the Toshiba hdd (the original hdd) and none on the latter.
The pins are marked as G, UAO, UAI and +5v.

I tried pushing my luck and continued to swap the two hdd but my Macbook cannot detect the hdd. All this while I thought that the only difference in hdds is the type of connector (and the technology that goes with it), meaning PATA vs SATA.

Now theres this extra four pins that has left me confused. Can anybody shed any light on this? Is there a workaround? I'm hoping that I don't need to fork out some more cash for the hdd upgrade.

Thanking you guys in advance.



Dean needs

This post has been edited by deanja92: Oct 27 2009, 12:44 PM

There's no need to be bothered with the extra pins. They are still SATA drive that compliance to SATA requirement.

Have you check is the drive seated well? Have you try booting into OSX DVD and see if the drive detected by Disk Utility? Did you try the EFI boot menu (hold option startup). Have you try zapping PRAM?

Thanks Wei for the reply,

Haven't tried any of them yet but I will give it a try one after another.

Anyways, I'm still wondering about the Toshiba hdd having those extra pins and the Fujitsu having none.
Just being curious though, sure is good to know.

i think i know which extra pins ure talking about. if u connect the hard drive to the SATA connector, the pins are not inserted. i have no idea what it is as well, but it appears that they're not meant to be connected to the computer.

during the IDE days there were a set of pins where it lets you choose between a Master / Slave connection. im pretty sure SATA doesnt need this, but are they any similar SATA configurations im not aware of?