upgrades in macbook

[memoteran]

would a 7200rpm hard drive would help with the performace of a macbook? would be easy to install?

 

[phungy]

would a 7200rpm hard drive would help with the performace of a macbook?

Depends on what type of work you'll be doing...

would be easy to install?

VERY easy.

 

[flopticalcube]

Drives of that speed are power hungry. Max out your RAM first.

 

[Steven Jackson]

I have a Macbook with 2GB RAM and a 100GB 7200 rpm HDD (now for sale on eBay, actually) and, yes, it does make a huge difference.

Launching of apps and general startup/shutdown times are much, much quicker. I wouldn't want to go back to a 4200 or 5400rpm drive...

As for battery life, I can't say I've noticed any difference. The batter lasts plenty long enough to watch a full DVD so all's good, in my opinion.

To sum up: money well spent, I reckon.

Cheers,

Steve.

 

[TheBrazilianGuy]

Well, according to Barefeats
(http://www.barefeats.com/mbcd7.html), performance directly
depends on the amount of data on the disk, which varies from
person to person.

I have a Macbook with 2GB RAM and a 100GB 7200 rpm HDD (now for sale on eBay, actually) and, yes, it does make a huge difference.

Launching of apps and general startup/shutdown times are much, much quicker. I wouldn't want to go back to a 4200 or 5400rpm drive...

As for battery life, I can't say I've noticed any difference. The batter lasts plenty long enough to watch a full DVD so all's good, in my opinion.

To sum up: money well spent, I reckon.

Cheers,

Steve.