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Originally Posted by dhillon09
I have two questions if anyone knows how to help me,
1) I have a 2009 Core 2 Duo macbook pro 13 and a 2011 I7 macbook pro 17'. I do not have the CD's for my 13' inch, but I have bought Lion on it. Can I use my 2011 I7's CD to install Lion on the 2009 macbook?
if you bought lion through the appstore, can't you just re-download it? anyhow, there are no security features or serial numbers. ppl are making their own lion install usb's left and right using the original *.dmg (...show contents) and the disk utility (...restore).
2) Will any 2.5' SSD work in the macbook pro 13' (2009) (i.e. SATA III vs SATA II)? Also if I want to add ram, what brands have you guys had success with? TIA  Gonna go pick up all this stuff from memory express this weekend hopefully
Looking at this drive:
Crucial M4 2.5in SATA III Solid State Drive, 128GB at Memory Express |
that's a great drive. whatever the lower sata version is, you will only get those speeds (i.e. sataII). i've never bought or recommended mac-specific ram for macbooks. i had a mbp and a mb unibody. i just used the cheapest brand name SODIMM i could find matching the original sticks' specs; not a single problem.
i have the m4 in my desktop. gonna wait till the 256gb drops a bit more and grab that instead because I don't really feel like getting an optibay. who knows, if the 128gb drops near 100 i might think about it. it was $13x on tigerdirect last week. the price at memX aint' so hot. then pairing it with an optibay and a 1tb might be a gd route. (or 2x SSD's).