Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Took out my optical drive on a 2009 macbook, kept the hard drive plus added a 480gb SSD with system etc.

Much faster, only issue is that it also runs much hotter.

Enough to be painful on legs in summer.

Worth doing.

how did you copy your existing HD over to the new one? easy to do?

also...is it such a good idea to place the SSD in the optical drive slot? will it kill your machine?