Who still has the white Macbook 2,1 late 2006??

No, the gestures require a glass no button trackpad which is only on the Model 5,1, 6,1 and 7,1 MacBooks.

Getting data remotely via Time Capsule requires

iCloud - which we can't smoke our way into without

Lion - which our 2,1's are a little too lean on memory

to handle with aplomb. In the present, large HDs

are available for a third of the price of TC and one

need leave nothing "on" at home to access. But I

agree that the cloud is the future, as is MobileMe

until June 30. I expect Mountain Lion to simplify

access to our data wherever it's stored. As you

may be one of the pioneers accessing TC remotely

we commend your spirit. You know how to recognize

the pioneers, I'm sure. They're the ones with the

arrows sticking out of their backs.

In the unlikely event the WD Scorpio Black causes undue

vibration you could always make a warranty claim to at

least exchange for another. Doubt this will be necessary.

You may wish to avail yourself of the Tork (sp?) - No. 6 I believe -

screwdriver in the meantime.

Realize this is a 6-month old thread, so apologies for raising the dead. But it's exactly what I'm looking at doing, so thought I'd check in with this group.

I'm upgrading my wife's late 2006 Macbook 2,1 to try to squeeze a few more years out of it. Just upgraded the RAM, and things already run better. Next is to install Snow Leopard or Lion, but I realize there's not enough space on the original 80GB drive. So an SSD upgrade is in order.

From what I read, this model Macbook has a SATA I connector which will work with SATA II drives, but not SATA III. Mini-Mac, you mentioned that you bought the Crucial m4, though, which (if my meager brain is understanding correctly) Is SATA III and supposedly shouldn't work. The Crucial site recommends the v4 instead of the m4 for this model.

So which is the right choice, SATA II v4 or SATA III m4?

Thanks!

If disk space is the most important detail, put a standard rotational disk. In my wife’s similar model I put a 7200 rpm disk (320 GB which, approx. 3 years ago, was the best choice price/capacity/quality). Another option is a hybrid (rotational + SSD disk, initially unreliable, now well done), SSD is of course faster and more expensive. SATA II and III have the same connectivity, but that generation of macs does not use the speed of 3rd generation SATA.

Therefore a 750 GB hybrid, with a 32 GB SSD, would be my choice, but opinions may vary, of course.

Thanks for the reply Cattus. Having enormous amounts of disk space isn't the most important aspect, nor is strictly cost per GB. For perhaps indefensible reasons, I'm sold on SSD for this upgrade.

It sounds like the Crucial m4 (SATA III) will work on the Macbook 2,1, but perhaps without the expected performance. Does anyone know if this will perform worse than a SATA II drive (like the Crucial v4)? Or would they be essentialy the same?

Sata III will perform at the speed allowed by machine architecture, therefore not better than II. This is what I have read.

So a SATA III and SATA II drive will have essentially the same performance?

Only with pre-SATA III machines as their config does not yet know that there would be a SATA III era.

This is also a problem of pocket: an ATA hard disk is more expensive than a SATA disk, I have not analyzed prices regarding SATA II ~ III disks, if II is more expensive than III, then buy III, even if speed is not better with that generation of machine.

Mine has 2.5GB of RAM and SL. I found it was too slow with Lion when I installed that on an external FireWire drive and used it as a boot disk. My white MacBook is banged up - stress cracks on the case and everything but it still keeps on going, although the fan is on its way out again (second time).

5+ years old and it keeps on going.