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CoolMe

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Apr 26, 2008
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Evening :)

I'm thinking about upgrading my hard drive in the macbook pro, like the ram it's 'special'

Does the hard drive have to be a particular type? or is their a nice little list i can choose from?

Cheers,

Is it worth going for a SSD or just a bigger and better than the current one i've got?

(Just for the record, i've got the one that did not recently come out, the one just before it) haha
 
Just has to be a 2.5" SATA drive.

I wouldn't bother with a SSD, just a nice big HD will do. If you want reads/writes to be faster maybe consider getting a 7,200rpm disk. Hope this helps.
 
oh I've got the 15.4"

Cheers for that, any particular website for purchasing HD's?

I'm looking for something that lighter than the one I have, Carrying around this baby is hard work!
 
I don't think you can cut too much weight from changing out a hard drive. If you dont want to buy a SLC SSD, grab a nice 7200rpm drive.
 
That's funny....may want to pick up a MacBook for that! I did the same, in fact, I am typing on it now....for working around the house, in my lap. My MBP doesn't see the light of day around the house....just the MB!

Good Luck
 
CoolMe said:
Does anyone know the weight of the Hatchi HD used in the macbook pros?

- With the price of SSD's and the storage, I'll go with a nice normal one ;)

EDIT

Would this be better?

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146083
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While these may not be the exact Hitachi drives Apple uses in some MBPs, this OWC page shows Hitachis at 110-115g- and the Western Digital you linked is 111g so.... like was mentioned above there is not going to be anything other than negligible weight differences from a part that light.

The Western Digital drive would be fine, as would Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, etc drives, with a slight operating speed advantage going to drives that operate at 7200rpm over those that are 5400rpm.
 
The new one will be 99g where as the current one is like 115?

Trust me, if your lugging it around all day in a side bag - It really hurts your shoulder!
 
Not sure if this is important here, but if you have the older model with the silver keyboard, be careful as upgrading the HD may affect your warranty.
 
I've already done my ram :)

Yes - It's the silver keyboard, the model just before the recent one
 
kmarketing said:
Not sure if this is important here, but if you have the older model with the silver keyboard, be careful as upgrading the HD may affect your warranty.
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Ooh, he did say that in the OP. And you're right. You'd have to have an authorized apple repair center put it in, and it would have to be a model that apple already uses.

For example, here in OKC the apple store won't do it, but promac computers or the macman would...for a small fee.
 
So how do I know what type of HD's apple use? and how much would that cost!

If I were to do it myself, I wouldn't have to tell them If I were did go and needed help would I?
 
CoolMe said:
So how do I know what type of HD's apple use? and how much would that cost!

If I were to do it myself, I wouldn't have to tell them If I were did go and needed help would I?
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This subject was probably the most discussed ever! it's a moot point with the unibody but big deal for the precedent ones. I replaced mine and the word is as long you don't mess up anything doing it you should be fine as Apple has no way (and no time) to know if it was done at a shop or not. If you're comfortable replacing it i say go for it :) good luck.
 
Ah okay, thats fine then :)

Besides - Apple show you how to replace a HD on their website!
 
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