I use a mid-2009 Mac Pro for photo editing / cataloging in Lightroom. Performance has been increasingly unsatisfactory. Looking for your advice re: upgrades to the Mac Pro, or perhaps getting a new Macbook Pro. Specs inside.
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posted by Admiral Haddock
on Feb 20, 2013 -
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Need advice on how to update an older MacBook Pro with a new hard drive. I have a late-2008 MacBook Pro: 2.53 GHz, 320GB hard drive, 8GM RAM (4GB in two slots). My drive is getting full and I don't have the cash at the moment for a brand new laptop. Should I replace the optical drive with a SSD? Or just upgrade the regular hard drive with a new one with 750GB or 1TB?
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posted by barnone
on Nov 23, 2012 -
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Help me navigate buying and upgrading a new Macbook Pro. Can I upgrade the HDD or RAM myself without voiding the warranties, or am I stuck paying the Apple tax for more HDD and RAM?
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posted by grobstein
on Nov 20, 2012 -
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Upgraded MacBook Pro RAM, now having trouble getting it to boot up. It will not turn back on after being in sleep mode overnight, otherwise it has no issues turning back on after sleep mode.
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posted by carmel
on Aug 7, 2012 -
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Will OS X Lion kill my old MacBook (10.6.8, 2GB RAM, 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo)? It seems like upgrading is serious risk.
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posted by Hermanos
on Jan 24, 2012 -
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I have a few questions regarding upgrading from one Macbook to another and transferring data/settings.
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posted by 4ster
on Apr 8, 2011 -
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Hi there - I am about to upgrade a Black Macbook laptop running Tiger OS X to Snow Leopard (using a $29 Snow Leopard upgrade disk I bought off Amazon.com) (yes, I know this is sort of late in the day). Do you have any tips? Is there anything I should watch out for?
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posted by Bwithh
on Jul 24, 2010 -
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My daughter is about to buy a 13" MacBook after working & saving for quite a while. I'd like to add to the fun to the tune of $200-300, but how to use the extra money? Upgrade to MacBook Pro 13? Software? AppleCare (she's 12 and will be schlepping it to school daily)? Something I haven't thought of?
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posted by skyscraper
on Feb 9, 2010 -
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Will upgrading the size (but not RPM or cache size) of my laptop's hard drive increase performance?
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posted by cosmic osmo
on Apr 1, 2009 -
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Looking to buy a
MacBook through Apple's education store. I need it for the upcoming school year. I'm stoked on the free iPod-touch but heard an upgrade is coming very soon. Is it worth it to wait for the new line of laptops? Does anyone know when this is expected to happen?
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posted by ageispolis
on Jul 15, 2008 -
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Hello you beautiful Meta-Mac-Geniuses. Please tell me how much and what kind of memory my Macbook will hold. I am hovering at 16 free GB of HD space and 160 mb of memory and do not know what kind or how much to buy. Should I upgrade or just buy an external HD? details inside.
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posted by meeshell
on Mar 6, 2008 -
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Upgrading to MacBook... how do I move my email and especially my applications over from my iBook?
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posted by missed
on Jan 31, 2007 -
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When will the next MacBook update happen? I know Apple doesn't tell, but could someone give me an educated guess based on product lifecycle? I'm about to upgrade, but I always buy right right before they update.
posted by Dag Maggot
on Jan 20, 2007 -
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Will I be at any disadvantage if I buy the most basic of the Macbooks? What would I NOT be able to do that I might have to do? This would be my first laptop, I'm on a limited budget (less than $1300), and I live both inside and outside the United States, so I have a few (sub-)questions.
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posted by mdonley
on Sep 24, 2006 -
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I've just copied all my data from an iBook G4 to a Macbook. For some reason, the delete and return keys don't work in Safari and Mail.app on the Macbook. I think I've solved this before but I can't remember how and can't find the answer.
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posted by Mo Nickels
on May 24, 2006 -
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