All out of upgrades?

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bwana

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Last night I upgraded my MBPs stock 5400rpm 150gb hdd to a nice fast 7200rpm 250gb and I'm already noticing the difference. While I was at it I created a dedicated 10gb scratch disk for PS3 and hid that (out of sight out of mind) which is a good idea for any heavy PS user - the scratch disk that is, not necessarily hiding it.

Unfortunately that brings to a close the potential upgrades for my MBP as the RAM is also maxed out so my next upgrade will be to a completely new machine . . . but that's pretty far down the road.

I will need a new keyboard first - some of the keys are overly warn - so that's something to look forward to. :D
 
Cybermoo said:
bwana, just out of interest when did you first bring home your shiny MBK home?
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Not sure . . . let me just check with Amazon.

EDIT: Looks like Jan 07.
 
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bwana said:
I guess I should explain for the visitors -
MB=MacBook,
MBP=MacBook Pro,
MBA=MacBook Air
PC= . . . well we need not go there. ;)
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Eish, alf’s going to have my hide for wondering out of the quarantine zone again..thanks bwana. :D
 
spiderz said:
So how much you gonna sell it for? when getting ur new one?
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Sell? I've got my 17" Powerbook G4 running next to me and my PB 1400CS sitting at home. Selling is unlikely. ;)
 
Spiderz, if you are interested I got a friend that is wanting to sell her 17'' Powerbook which is in amazing condition. Get in touch with me and I'll forward you on to her if you are interested:

"I have the origional packaging and the notebook is in
exceptional condition with the battery health at 97%. I have Toast 7 and
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac to go with the machine. The machine details
are as follows:

Machine Name: PowerBook G4 17"
Machine Model: PowerBook5,9
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.5)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.67 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.9.5f3"
 
bwana said:
Last night I upgraded my MBPs stock 5400rpm 150gb hdd to a nice fast 7200rpm 250gb and I'm already noticing the difference.
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Did you do the replacement yourself and if so how much of a mission was it?

I am thinking of doing the same.
 
icyrus said:
Did you do the replacement yourself and if so how much of a mission was it?

I am thinking of doing the same.
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I've done it for MBs and MBPs - which do you have? The MB is dead easy - the MBP requires considerably more screwdriver work.

MB hdd is also user serviceable which means your warranty if fine even if you do it.
 
bwana said:
I've done it for MBs and MBPs - which do you have? The MB is dead easy - the MBP requires considerably more screwdriver work.

MB hdd is also user serviceable which means your warranty if fine even if you do it.
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17in MBP.
 
bwana said:
You'll need a small phillips head and a torx driver.

Is it out of warranty?
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Yeah. Mine is the first gen MBPs released that I picked up while I was in the US.

Could you give an estimate as to how long it took you and the degree of difficulty?

I have put together my own PCs from parts before so its not really a tools or skills concern but rather the fact that doing this sort of thing annoys me intensely ;)
 
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It took about 10-15 minutes all together but at the end I was rocking the sprog back to sleep with one arm which was slowing things down. One screw kept sticking to the magnetic latch mechanism which was a pain.

I'll need to check but iirc the first time I did it (had to check the disk with spinrite) I got instructions from http://www.ifixit.com/
 
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