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help?????? (will harddrive work with ibook g4?)

It looks good but I'm not sure about the height. Mac laptops need 9.5mm tall 2.5" hard drives. Do you already have a NewEgg account or can you look elsewhere online? Keep in mind it's a pain to open an iBook.

Here's my suggestion if you're up to the adventure.
 
no i dont have an account, a guy is selling one for $50 nib on craigslist.com. ican do some research. if it does fit i will have it done professionally. thanks:D
 
the dimensions are 0.4" Height x 2.8" Width x 3.9" Depth its not going to fit right?:apple:
 
These are the only other instances online that I could find of the hard drive wen related to iBooks.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6108145

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/533009870931/inc/1

I looked up PowerBooks as well but the results were mostly reviews of the hard drive. I got this off of xlr8yourmac. I'd go to them for their drive compatibility lists.

Reviewer's Name: William A.
Date Submitted: 11/20/2007
Drive Type: Hard Drive
Drive Interface: IDE
Drive Brand: Seagate
Drive Model Number: ST9160821A-RK
Drive Size: 160GB
Driver Used: Apple Standard
Mac Model: PowerBook G4
Mac OS Version: OS X 10.4
Reader Comments: PowerBook G4 (Ti) 667MHz running 10.4.11. (Note - no native 48bit addressing/big drive support on the Ti PB's - so drive capacity limited to appx 128GB (binary)/137GB (decimal). Later Alum PB's have big drive support.-Mike)
The original IBM TravelStar 30 GB drive would no longer mount. Having found your site, I decided to get a Seagate 160 GB ST9160821A-RK drive. The install was no problem. I used the PowerBook G4 Titanium 550/667 Repair Guide that I downloaded free from PowerBook Medic.com. It has great pictures and instructions.

I did a clean install of Tiger with no problems. Now running 10.4.11 without incident. The only problem I had was that the maximum size of the drive that was recognized was 137 GB instead of 160 GB. So, apparently this model of PowerBook G4 is incapable of recognizing the larger drive.
-William

Mike Comments: Intecusa (makers of speedtools) has a large drive support ATA driver to address this but it's not 10.5 compatible (to date). And I didn't care for that workaround personally as when booted from CD or another drive (that does not have their driver installed) - support is missing which is why they recommend "safe partitioning" (i.e. partition the drive so that the first/boot partition is within the 137GB limits)
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Happy hunting

mijenkins93 said:
the dimensions are 0.4" Height x 2.8" Width x 3.9" Depth its not going to fit right?:apple:
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That's 10.16 mm tall.
 
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