How well it
tackles those commands may differ from Mac to Mac, however, the factors behind this
difference being just how well a Mac is equipped. Apple provides the option of upgrading certain
aspects of your Mac before you buy it, such as installing a larger hard drive or bumping up the
amount of memory??”but of course, the purchase price of your Mac increases proportionally with
the number of new hardware devices that you choose to add.
Some Mac users like to make their own modifications, however. Why pay Apple to do it
when you can do it yourself? Be careful, though! The more options you add to your Mac and
the more cables you have dangling out of the back of it, the more your nerd quotient skyrockets!
Before you know it you??™ll be like those ??ber-geeks you see in the movies, with rack after rack of
hard drives and monitors all busily whirring away on who-knows-what.
In this chapter we??™ll take a gander at the basics of adding hardware to your Mac.
Understand Why Adding More
Memory Is Never a Bad Idea
No axiom could be truer when it comes to computers: adding more memory is never a bad idea.
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