I know, especially for laptops that there arn't a lot of choices for upgrading, but with the release of Lion and now Mountain Lion approaching there has been a significant decrease in performance. I have an older Macbook Pro, I believe its a 2009 model, had it almost two years now and still runs great. But I am in University, within a Print related field. I need something that can run numerous amounts of Adobe programs. As of right now, running Rockmelt (Browser) and iTunes at the same time slows down. I've cleaned all my cache, history, fixed permissions and so on but nothing seems to help.
I was planning on swapping the ram from 2gbs to 4 this summer, but what else could I do to increase the performance. This has to last me for another few years and with Apples continuous updates of the operating system if I leave my mac the way it is right now it'll get even slower.
Another reason why I want to upgrade is I am a huge Blizzard fan and Diablo 3 is released soon, downloaded the open beta this past weekend and it runs but the frames drop a lot when not in a cave or dungeon.
Any help will be appreciated. I'm currently in Toronto but soon go back home for the summer to Keswick.
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Buy an SSD. It will bring the most dramatic change. For me, adding an SSD to a 2010 MBP provided a more visible speed increase than moving from a 2007 - 2010 MacBook Pro (C2D to i7).
So harddrive and ram is what I should do, since I do not know how to remove things myself would it be acceptable to ask apple or would that be a huge fee
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iPod touch 16gb 2nd Generation
Diablo 3 frame-rate issues are caused by your unit's limited video card and processor; more RAM should help a little but overall you shouldn't expect the game to run much better unless you start turning down graphic details (an SSD won't make any difference).
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hmm. It's weird because the system requirements for the game looks like my macbook should easily handle it but idk. Is it possible to maybe switch out my graphics card. I know the processor is out of the question but I'm not sure.
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13-inch MacBook Pro - 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR3, 160GB ATA Drive
iPod touch 16gb 2nd Generation
hmm. It's weird because the system requirements for the game looks like my macbook should easily handle it but idk.
Most games are given minimum system requirements based on running the game on the lowest graphic settings as to appeal to a larger audience.
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Is it possible to maybe switch out my graphics card. I know the processor is out of the question but I'm not sure.
Unfortunately, no. Your MBP, I think, has the 9400M graphics, no? From Blizzard: (Recommended requirements: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 330M or ATI Radeon™ HD 4670 or better.)
Yeah it does. Idk see for games, I've always used PC's and even when I was younger I never had problems with lower end graphic cards. Hell I remember for years I only had an integrated graphics card and could run games like Half Life 2. I know now games are built differently but still I feel like there should be a way I could modify my macbook to at least run it with decent frames. I'm not expecting full resolution with maxed out graphics, but something in between.
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13-inch MacBook Pro - 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR3, 160GB ATA Drive
iPod touch 16gb 2nd Generation
Sorry for the double post but if I downgraded to Snow Leopard would that help at all? I'm pretty sure I still have the original cd from when I bought the mac.
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13-inch MacBook Pro - 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR3, 160GB ATA Drive
iPod touch 16gb 2nd Generation
The best you can do for that machine is an SSD and more ram. The ram install is trivial and something anyone can do. The SSD upgrade isn't that difficult on your MacBook if you can follow simple instructions.
How much data does your drive have on it now? That could play a role in which direction we suggest as well as large SSD's are very $$$.
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