buying/installing larger 3rd-party HDs in MacBook Pro?

[Flank]

I've got almost 80gb of music on my Power Mac G5, and i'm looking to get a Mac Book Pro for college. I really love my music collection, and I look forward to it growing, and I know that it would be stunted if I sprung for a 120gb hard drive in my new laptop.

If i'm looking to buy a larger HD for a MacBook Pro, what are my options? Will I be able to take it to my local apple store and have technicians there install the drive for me? Are there any technical issues (cooling, etc) with installing a new faster/larger drives?

I was thinking 160gb. It seems like there are a bunch on the market. I'm not going to buy a MacBook Pro until they update with the new chip. Is it possible/likely that Apple will offer a larger HD factory installed when they release this new processor?

Thanks everyone.

--Ben

 

[bbrosemer]

80 gb, there becomes some point where you should invest in an external HD, your only going to be able to stick a 160 gb in there and that is pretty expensive.