Friday night is hard drive upgrade night
Courtesy of some fine sales at Newegg.com and Other World Computing (macsales.com), I spent Friday night doing computer upgrades, specifically of hard drives. For about $100, my 1GHz Titanium Powerbook got a 120GB hard drive, my wife's 500MHz TiBook got my old 60GB hard drive (replacing the stock 30GB one which was amazingly noisy for an notebook drive), and my Quicksilver dual-800MHz G4 PowerMac got a new 12x DVD burner.
I had always heard that PowerBook hard drive upgrades were hard. They aren't. You simply need the appropriate Torx wrenches (T8s) to remove all the screws, and you have to be very careful not to break any of the ribbon cables during assembly and disassembly. But in the case of both Powerbooks, the backups and restores of the hard drives took much longer than their hard drive transplants. So if anyone is feeling like they need more hard drive space, don't put it off -- it's a cheap and not too hard upgrade.
One final note: this is a pretty good time to buy computer parts. March 31 is the end of both the month and the first quarter, which is typically a slow one for any electronics retailer. Discounting and specials come fast and furious as retailers try to unload excess inventory and get the best quarterly results they can. So if you're looking to upgrade your memory, hard drive, optical drive or just about anything that pushes electrons, monitoring dealmac.com, dealnews.com, newegg.com, and roosster.com can be well worth your while.
I had always heard that PowerBook hard drive upgrades were hard. They aren't. You simply need the appropriate Torx wrenches (T8s) to remove all the screws, and you have to be very careful not to break any of the ribbon cables during assembly and disassembly. But in the case of both Powerbooks, the backups and restores of the hard drives took much longer than their hard drive transplants. So if anyone is feeling like they need more hard drive space, don't put it off -- it's a cheap and not too hard upgrade.
One final note: this is a pretty good time to buy computer parts. March 31 is the end of both the month and the first quarter, which is typically a slow one for any electronics retailer. Discounting and specials come fast and furious as retailers try to unload excess inventory and get the best quarterly results they can. So if you're looking to upgrade your memory, hard drive, optical drive or just about anything that pushes electrons, monitoring dealmac.com, dealnews.com, newegg.com, and roosster.com can be well worth your while.
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