Laptops: upgradeable hard disks!!

[cube]

When will Apple make the laptop hard disks easy to upgrade? I am always chickening out of buying one because this upgrade is so difficult.

[mad jew]

It's not terribly difficult if given the right guides (http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/). :)

Having said that, I reckon laptops with easily accessible drives will come out in September but I'm basing that rumour on nothing. You heard it here first.

[Heb1228]

I've upgraded the hard drive in this one. It wasn't as easy as some PC laptops I've done, but thats the price you pay for having a good looking laptop thats less than an inch thick.

IMO thats a pretty silly reason not to buy a laptop. You shouldn't need to do it more than once, or possibly twice over the life of the machine. If you're upgrading hard drives in your laptop the way gamers upgrade their video cards, then you just need to get a life.

[disconap]

It's pretty easy (even in the ibooks), it just takes a long, long time. Sort of like your mom.*




*--satire

[superbovine]

When will Apple make the laptop hard disks easy to upgrade? I am always chickening out of buying one because this upgrade is so difficult.

first, it easy to upgrade any laptop if you know how. that being said some of the apple laptops are relatively easy to upgrade and some require a lot of work to remove a hard drive. However, that still means that do make laptops that are relatively easy to upgrade.

[cube]

IMO thats a pretty silly reason not to buy a laptop. You shouldn't need to do it more than once, or possibly twice over the life of the machine.

I don't want to go through the mess of replacing a Mac laptop hard drive even once. And apple puts lame and overpriced drives in there.

[ender78]

I don't want to go through the mess of replacing a Mac laptop hard drive even once. And apple puts lame and overpriced drives in there.


Overpriced? The MacBook HD upgrade is a STEAL. Dell charges 3x more for the same upgrade [more than the retail price of the drive].

[blackstone]

Having replaced my 12" PB's hard drive earlier this week, realized that I forgot to take all of the rubber stops off the old drive, and then disassembled the computer AGAIN in order to get the damned rubber stops in... I do think that the process is far more time-consuming than it should be and requires keeping track of way more little tiny screws than necessary.

However, it is not actually difficult to do. It just takes, say, 2 hours to replace the hard drive on a PB instead of the 5 minutes it might take on a Dell.

And if time is the only difference, then that's a really silly reason not to get a Mac. In exchange for 3+ years of having a PB run problem-free, I had to spend an extra 115 minutes of time to replace the hard drive when it dies. If I'd been using a cheapo Dell laptop instead, then I would have spent far more than 115 minutes over 3 years doing virus/spyware/adware scans, doing random hardware troubleshooting, and downloading new drivers for hardware from the different vendor websites. I'd much rather take my annoyingly-long hard drive installation procedure, thank you very much.

[AJBMatrix]

No, Easy to upgrade it a Dell Inspiron 5160. That HD was so easy to take out, that I did it just for the fun once. It was right over the PCI Card slot. You just removed that whole slot and everything and the HD was right in there.

[cube]

Cool! The MacBook Pro seems easy to upgrade. Now I hope it will be the same with the MacBook.