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Q about Macbook HardDrive Replacement
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Seagate's are great drives, most of them with 5-year warranties...best in the industry. People seem to be having great performance from the Hitachi as well, and it's usually bit cheaper than the Seagate (though they're closer in price than they were a few months ago). Don't know much about the Toshiba.
Yes, they're overpriced. Apple charges $300 to upgrade from the 60 GB drive to the 160 GB drive. You can buy your own 160 GB drive for about $200 (or even a little less) and still have the 60 GB drive to pop into an enclosure or sell.
yes, but you aren't suppose to.. it might invaildate your applecare if you aren't careful
USB2 or FireWire. FireWire would normally be slightly faster. You can get small ones that are based around laptop drives that are powered by the bus they are plugged into. These are easy to carry but only come in fairly low capacities due to the smaller capacity of laptop drives. Or you can get ones built around desktop drives. These are faster, have much higher capacities but require external power...
memory and hd swapping should never violate any warranty in my thought anyway..well unless they are impossible to get too, without taking the whole damn thing apart
Well, swapping the hard drive in the MacBook Pro requires you to remove the top case. Apple's not going to be thrilled anytime people go poking around in the internals and unhooking ribbon cables...it's really to mess things up if you don't know what you're doing.
true...i was talking i guess more from the stand point of us who know what we are doing...but i get your point
Right...the experienced computer users aren't the ones they're worried about. Maybe they should administer an exam prior to purchase to determine what level of service you're allowed to administer to your own computer.
wouldnt be a bad idea really, but somone would challange it and claim its unfair or something stupid like that
So this wouldn't be a bad idea if I took it to a computer place and asked them to do put a certain something in? It sounds like as long as you know what is going on then it would be okay, so I guess what I'm asking is, is it okay if you take it to a professional to do it? I'm assuming Apple won't upgrade it for me either?