Can I replace my own Ti PB Superdrive?

I don't have personal experience with that model, but in theory you could do it yourself if you find the right replacement part. Take a look at http://pbfixit.com/Guide/. They have guides for just about every Apple laptop model. I recently replaced a dying hard drive in my iBook using the guide on their site, and it went very smoothly for me. Take a look at the guide for the optical drive on your machine and gauge if you think you'd feel comfortable doing that. I'm not going to say it was easy with my iBook (far from it), but I've been upgrading/assembling desktop computers for over a decade, so I feel pretty comfortable with this kind of stuff. It was my first time doing anything with a laptop (aside from user-serviceable stuff like memory and Airport card) but no problem for me.

If you decide to do it, a couple of tips:

• Take your time. It should be obvious, but if you go too fast or get frustrated, you may end up breaking something.
• Print out all the pages from the guide to have them with you when you do the replacement.
• Also print out every high resolution image from the guide. Lay them all out on a table and as you remove screws from the machine, place them on the corresponding picture where they would go. Then when you reassemble it, you can easily find every screw and put it back exactly where it's supposed to go. This was especially important for me, as I'm pretty sure I would have mixed them up and/or had some extras laying around afterwards!

Hope this helps.

 

You can go to Other World Computing's TiBoog Optical Drive page - anything there would work. There are a couple of other places that sell TiBook optical drives as well.

You want something the vendor says will fit in the TiBook, since it has to fit in a tight space.

 

The TiBook is the easiest laptop to replace either the HDD or optical drive to work on. And yes, you can install an upgraded optical drive.