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Best hard drive upgrade option

  • $260: upgrade internal iMac hard drive to 2GB

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • $299: buy 1GB time machine

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • $300: buy external 2GB firewire 800 hard drive

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • there is another option! (post below)

    Votes: 1 33.3%

  • Total voters
    3

fruitpunch.ben

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Sep 16, 2008
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Surrey, BC
Hi, I am about to buy the new i7 27" iMac from the Canadian Education store. I was planning on upgrading the hard drive to 2GB but the extra 1GB costs $260 and I was wondering if there is a better way to spend that money on storage. My options seem so be:
  • extra $260 to upgrade internal hard drive by 1GB
  • extra $299 to get 1GB time machine which upgrades my old b/g wireless router to n at the same time
  • extra ~$300 to get a 2GB external firewire 800 drive for a total of 3GB storage
 
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