Going to be getting my bonus from work soon and need to upgrade this mac as other computers have been a priority.
Picked this up after christmas 2008 so this the SATA 150 160GB HDD and 2x 512mb 667MHz ram modules.
RAM:
I believe I can go up to 3GB but will not get the performance I want so I'll go for 2x 1GB CL5 667MHz 1.8v
Branded chips I'm not too sure what will currently work as I can't see what determines compatibility.
Harddrive:
This is where I'm going to struggle I believe. I'd definitely upgrade to at least a 7200rpm drive but again I've checked pages and apparently only seagate/fujitsu 200gb drives were the highest spec drives at the time that were compatible.
As for the Momentus XT, apparently doesn't fully work so SSD might be an option but again with drives being SATA II and III's I'm not sure how the speed will change. For instance the 40 Intel X25-M is 250mb/s so will that be maxed out at 150mb/s or 125mb/s or not compatible at all.
Any options would be considered.
Not that it matters but I want the fasted performance available (cost not thinking about at the moment), battery life not bothered about and main work will be photo/flash editing/rendering.
Thanks
Picked this up after christmas 2008 so this the SATA 150 160GB HDD and 2x 512mb 667MHz ram modules.
RAM:
I believe I can go up to 3GB but will not get the performance I want so I'll go for 2x 1GB CL5 667MHz 1.8v
Branded chips I'm not too sure what will currently work as I can't see what determines compatibility.
Harddrive:
This is where I'm going to struggle I believe. I'd definitely upgrade to at least a 7200rpm drive but again I've checked pages and apparently only seagate/fujitsu 200gb drives were the highest spec drives at the time that were compatible.
As for the Momentus XT, apparently doesn't fully work so SSD might be an option but again with drives being SATA II and III's I'm not sure how the speed will change. For instance the 40 Intel X25-M is 250mb/s so will that be maxed out at 150mb/s or 125mb/s or not compatible at all.
Any options would be considered.
Not that it matters but I want the fasted performance available (cost not thinking about at the moment), battery life not bothered about and main work will be photo/flash editing/rendering.
Thanks