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Think you need to pay for someone to upgrade the RAM on your early white 2008 Apple MacBook? Think again. Dave Taylor -- from AskDaveTaylor.com -- shows exactly how to disassemble your MacBook and upgrade from 1GB to 4GB of memory. It's easy. Really.
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hi this is dave taylor today we're going
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to upgrade the memory on this macbook so
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what do we need for this we need
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a screwdriver little one
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we need a coin pretty easy enough and we
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need of course more memory so between
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all of those it's not going to be hard
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we're going to pop open the battery from
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the back and in there these little slots
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will pop out the old memory and get the
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new one so let's jump in alright so
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here's our macbook we need to flip it
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over
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that might be the hardest part of this
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process then we need a coin
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i'll use a quarter
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and
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we will do that pop the battery out
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now put it aside and now it turns out
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there are three screws here you can kind
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of see it there in the video
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and we're going to have to unscrew all
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three of them i'll start on this side
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there we go
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so now as you can see we're pulling this
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metal strip out
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and
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move my hands out of the way so you can
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see it's actually pretty straightforward
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the screws are still in it so that's
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convenient we'll put it aside and now
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you can see there's these little levers
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all we have to do is flip it over
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and we can do that on both of them
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and now we have the memory ready to pull
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out
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there's one old memory card
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and
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there's two old memory cards and here's
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the new ones
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and the trick now is to orient them the
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same way so it came out that way these
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have to go in that way so
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slides right in and you push it in until
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you can feel that it actually
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clicks into place
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a little bit tricky
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then we do the same with the other one
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so
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and this by the way this is kingston
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memory um
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they generously
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gave us the memory for this project
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which is nice so let's see i'll move it
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here and
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again
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you have to be a little enthusiastic
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about pushing them in until they're
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firmly seated
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and that's it now all we have to do is
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put this back
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let's
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do the screws there's three
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that's all we got to do and we have the
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memory the battery
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put that back in
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while we're holding it down we take the
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coin
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lock it into place get the old memory
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out of the way
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and
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done voila now give me a moment and
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we'll start it and we'll see if we have
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more memory
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you
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