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xoggyux

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the other day i was browsing and I found an review of a WD HDD, and I found this
But first, the bad news. If you install the Scorpio Black into your Mac laptop, your warranty will be void. It’s not an easy installation and requires at least two types of screwdrivers and at least five minutes of your time. I also advise a clean workspace so you don’t lose track of all the tiny screws. If you’ve installed a laptop or desktop hard drive before, you should not have difficulty installing the Scorpio Black. However, if even a relatively simple task like installing RAM seems intimidating, you may want to find a professional to install the hard drive for you.

I thought replacing the HDD would not void the system's warranty. Now I am concerned since i wanted to upgrade to SSD down the line.
Do you have any apple link that specify you do can change the HDD? I'd like to have a hard copy just in case in the future I need some kind of document saying that the warranty is not void. Please thanks.
 
Which laptop do you have?

I own a Mac Book Pro 15" Core 2 Duo @ 2.4Ghz (aug 2008), I really think i need a faster drive, since i feel my system often slow and when I check the activity monitor CPU is fine (less than 50% so another 50% to go) and I got over 2 Gb of free ram (and 1 Gb of innactive, so nearly 3Gb available) and the only thing is "maxed out" is the HDD at 20~25MB/s (which sounds like its max speed since in benchmarks it can get top 25~35MB/s)
 
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