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My Mother Recently gave me this Laptop, Ill be leaving for college soon, and I really want to boost the performance on the thing without dropping too deep in my pocket book. What are the best hard-drive and the appropriate and safe amount of memory that I could install on my mac without a system burnout or something. I was thinking 500GB and then upgrading the ram do you guys have any suggestions. I’m clueless on this one.

What exactly do you mean “system burnout”? If you install ram and hard drive correctly you will not have any type of “burnout” . You can put in however much hard drive space and ram that you would like to pay for. I’d recommend a 500GB drive and 8GB of ram.

It’s A " 2008 " Intel duo Aluminum MacBook Pro 13.3-inch 160GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive. 2GB Ram

You can max it out at 8GB of ram. 500GB HDD should be plenty.

I have a unibody macbook late 2008. I need a new battery and a ssd drive. Which to get and if not here where to buy it? Thank you in advance.