I need to upgrade my laptop because it’s grown a little long in the tooth for my current needs.
I spend most of my time editing photographs using Aperture 3.0, and with the new 64-bit OS and my ever-growing photo collection, I am taxing the limits of my old Macbook Pro. It’s a 2.33 Ghz model max’d out with 3GB of RAM, 256MB of VRAM and a 7200 RPM 500GB hard drive. But I really need more RAM, and the extra screen real estate and faster processor is going to be a welcome change. But there was a glitch…
I have an ExpressCard34 slot in my old Mac, but sadly the new 15″ models have removed it in favor of an SD card slot. Meh. But I just discovered a little-known fact: the 17″ unibody Macbook Pro actually still has the slot. Now I can upgrade and still use my Very Large Array of Disks (my acronym: “Vlad”), which has an eSATA connection by using the eSATA expresscard adapter that I have.
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