Have you always been able to upgrade the 12" ibook to an 80G hd

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martin1000

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Apr 27, 2005

• #1

Just checked the Apple store and was looking at the options for hard drives for the base 12" ibook. I don't remember being able to upgrade to an 80G hd. But it's an option now.

Is this new?

 

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Nutsaboutmacs

macrumors newbie

• Apr 27, 2005

• #2

Yesterdays News!

The 12" Powerbooks have been shipping with 80 GB hard drives for some time! I bought mine in September 2004, and ordered the 80GB drive. So to answer your question politely: Certainly, the opportunity has been apparent to the watchful eye for quite some time! Greetz from "old Europe"!

nutsaboutmacs 😀

 

mkrishnan

Moderator emeritus

• Apr 27, 2005

• #3

nutsaboutmacs said:

The 12" Powerbooks have been shipping with 80 GB hard drives for some time! I bought mine in September 2004, and ordered the 80GB drive. So to answer your question politely: Certainly, the opportunity has been apparent to the watchful eye for quite some time! Greetz from "old Europe"!

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Yes, but not for the iBooks. 🙁 I think it came in one of the recent updates...but definitely no, you were not always able to. It was 30/40/60 at launch.

 

mad jew

Moderator emeritus

• Apr 27, 2005

• #4

Yeah, mkrishnan's on the ball, it was the last update. Of course, that's just for the Apple Store, I've got an 80 gig hard drive in my 800MHz G4 iBook.

 

solvs

macrumors 603

• Apr 27, 2005

• #5

It's not that new, it's been there since they were last updated. I remember looking at upgrading to a 40GB drive, and the option was not there. 30, 60, and 80 were it. I assume it'll be 40, 60, and 80 in the next version.

 

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eleveneastgate

macrumors 6502

• Apr 27, 2005

• #6

In 2003, when I got my iB G3 900Mhz the biggest HD you can get was 60G.

They were able to go bigger because of the G4 processor... I think --- 😉