S4 on the way, help me prep my laptop!!!!! please

[Accidental-DJ]

Hi all from Australia,

Just put a order at my local shop for a S4. Wanting some help to clean my machine up before it comes so i can just muck around on it ASAP....

my specs are:

13" Macbook pro
Processor: 2.26GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 2GB 1067 MHZ DDR3

with 40GB free on my HDD

question im sure this is enough to run the s4?

super keen to be dumping my cdjs and joining the darkside

[Coldfuzion]

Your MacBook Pro will be more than enough. Those specs are just fine. It'll run without any problems. Jus pick up your s4, install the software, plug it in, re-calibrate your jog wheels, and you're golden.

[smiTTTen]

Nice one for doing some due diligence upfront!

[RobDeLarge]

It should do just fine

[RobDeLarge]

And welcome to the TS4 family, bro!

[photojojo]

You're getting close to the low end of hard drive space it's not low enough to really be a problem yet though. If you can clean it up some by deleting some old files and copies of trial programs it will help with computer performance in general. Other than that make sure you follow the instructions to the tee. Don't plug in the S4 until the software is installed and updated to 1.0.1.

[rhombus_77]

How big is the hard drive? If it is 80gb you shouldn't have any bottlenecks at that end. I would try to leave your hdd at least 1/2 empty (atleast on a PC). From what I have read, filling a hard drive can cause speed issues. With Macs, I have read that Mac OS X uses free hard drive space as virtual memory. I might think about getting an external hard drive for your tunes.

[Accidental-DJ]

thanks everyone..

the hard drive is a 160GB

ill clean it up...

would it be worth be putting in a 500gb hard drive and 2gb of ram or slowly save for a new MBP?

i think it should be fine

[smiTTTen]

The RAM should be an inexpensive upgrade and well worth doing. For instance, I just purchased 2 x 4GB of DDR3 PC8500 for $80. The additional disk would also be worth doing.

The reason you need a certain amount of free space on the disk is that the operating system will try and use a portion of that space as a back up for the RAM. i.e. when it starts to max out the RAM it starts to store data on the disk. The issue is that hard disks are far, far slower than RAM. This is likely less true for SSD disks but that's another story for another day. The take away is: the more RAM you have the less swap space (disk) you OS will need to use. The less it uses swap space, the faster your machine will operate. Buying just another or larger disk without the RAM may solve some potential issues but won't help with performance.

Make sense? I need a pint...

SmiTTTen

[Accidental-DJ]

thanks, i got 60GB free now, also with the macbook model i have how much ram can it have in it eg 2x4gb sticks?