{"id":21,"date":"2006-10-23T17:23:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T16:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-12-11T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T13:52:01","slug":"upgrading-the-macbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading the Macbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, my Macbook has been behaving impeccably after the repair. The other day I upgraded the hard disk… here’s how easy it is…<\/p>\n

When I bought the Macbook, I had no idea how I’d get on with an Apple (being a diehard Linux user), so bought the cheapest spec version – \u00a3750 for a 1.8GHz dual core, 60Gb HDD, with 512k RAM. After playing with it for about 10 minutes I was converted. I still use Linux for a lot of stuff, but for everyday computer usage, it’s the Mac every time.
\nIt was apparent pretty much immediately that 512k RAM is not ideal. So I upgraded using third-party RAM to 2Gb for about \u00a3140. Buying a Macbook with 2Gb installed already would have added \u00a3350 to the price.<\/p>\n

The other day I figured I could do with extra internal hard disk storage. I bought a 120Gb 2.5″ SATA 5400 rpm HDD from www.scan.co.uk<\/a> for just under \u00a370 (inc VAT), and also ordered an external hard disk case to take the old SATA drive. I slotted in the new one, reinstalled OS X from the original DVD disks, and then copied all of my old home directory to the new home directory. I install all new applications in ~\/apps\/, so everything I installed on the old disk went across, and, because applications are designed to be self-contained under OS X, they All Just Worked on the new install. Easy.<\/p>\n

So, by buying the basic machine and upgrading it (I spent about \u00a3230 on the new RAM and disk in total), I’ve saved \u00a3300 on what it would have cost me to buy the equivalent machine from Apple. Both the RAM and HDD are user-upgradeable, with the bays being accessible from inside the battery compartment, so no dismantling apart from removing a metal bracket which covers the slots. All you need is a (quite small) cross-head screwdriver and you are away.<\/p>\n

If you read this and saved yourself \u00a3300 by following my advice, consider buying me a beer via PayPal on the “donate” page :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, my Macbook has been behaving impeccably after the repair. The other day I upgraded the hard disk… here’s how easy it is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}