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- gleem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20So I decided to upgrade the hard drive in my MacBook Pro. I was just tired of getting the "startup disk almost full" errors. I found a great deal on a 160gb drive ($130) and set to work.
This is my second MacBook Pro, and I took apart my first one with no problems and got it back together. So I considered myself experienced in the art of getting it taken apart and putting it back together.
I carefully removed all the necessary screws. I was fully aware of the two screws behind the battery on the front side of the notebook. After getting the screws removed I began taking off the top case. It was caught up on the front a little bit so I, as recommended by the take-apart guide, slowly and carefully rocked it back and forth. I was careful not to force anything.
The top case just wouldn't come off. I tried a few more times and then set in to investigate further. Turns out I had left those two screws in. @#$!@! I had just bent up the top case. In fact, one of the tabs where those screws go in completely broke off.
Despite my setback I proceeded with the install, got everything back together, and tried it out. The top case is bent in the front, so the notebook wouldn't close properly. I mean, it would close, but you had to push really hard to get the latch to work.
Knowing what I did wrong the last time, I figured I was safe the open it again without too many problems. To make a long story short, I opened up and tried to fix the case about 5 times - making it progressively worse each time.
Upon getting it back together, it would either not close right or not fit together right. I took it apart one last time and finally took my marware pad off (duh) and put it back together. While I had it open though, I noticed many of the spot welds on the top case had come loose (you know the ones that hold the aluminum to the rest of the top case). I got some glue to pin it back down so it wouldn't be sticking up in the corners and by the keyboard (yes, I fubared it that bad).
All back together one last time, closes great, but now it's a pain in the ass to open. You have to dig your finger into the right side of the button to get it to release. I worked on it for a bit, getting os x installed and my old files transferred over from my previous hard drive, etc.
Finally I shut the lid and went to bed.
It gets worse!
In the morning I woke up and turned the thing on. Working great, but I noticed some smudging on my screen. Upon further inspection I noticed it was in an exact straight line across the screen exactly above where the top case aluminum meets the bottom of the keyboard. I had glued here and fumes from the glue must have come up and ruined the screen.
I tried cleaning it with a alcohol/water solution to no avail. The smudge appears to be actually damage from the fumes of the glue to the screen.
So, to recap: Upgraded hard drive from 80 to 160 gigs. Downgraded latch to non-opening, top case to non-fitting, and screen to permanent smudge. I also realize that I probably hosed my warranty. I sprung for the 3 year and am in my first year. I assume I can't get a refund on the last two years so I'm pretty much screwed. A refund would be nice because it would at least pay for a new top case (~$250).
Moral of the story: don't be a dumbass. - Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Seriously...how does this ***** make the front page?
"Noob gets pwned by tubes." Instant 50 diggs by the fourteen year old legion.
Edit: I answered my own question. Nevermind. - STKD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Our forum server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later."
Yep that's definitely too funny not to share. - mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6sounds like a lot of effort just to replace a hard drive. on the macbook all you have to do is remove one little metal piece that covers the battery and the DIMM slots, then you just slide the drive out. simple.
this guy just doesn't know when to stop. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6http://www.duggmirror.com/apple/Worst_n00b_Macbook_Pro_Upgrade_Story_Ever/
- betterth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Well unlike just about every other laptop in existance, you have to take apart an Apple to get to the hard drive. Actually, for a first timer, an Apple HD replacement can easily take over an hour.
My Dell can be done in about ninty seconds. But hey, putting the hard drive in the least convenient place ever works too.
(And don't give me the "it's safer", line, my roommates thinkpad is just as easy to get to, and his includes the dampening technology and the auto-off gyrators to detect freefall and prevent hd failure that way...)
(Edit: Actually note sure about this gen of laptops, but I know that the hour+ holds very true for previous generations, having done it myself) - glock22ownr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Mac Book Pros aren't that hard to upgrade. The old iBooks and Powerbooks were a bitch and a half, you had to take the damn things appart almost. The dude used glue, and bent *****. Note: if it does not come out or go in smoothly you are f'ing something up, and that goes for any machine Mac, Dell, HP, whatever. Force + Stupidity + Computer = Bad. My opinion... he got what he had coming to him.
- wordsthatendini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sort of reminds me of a "server tech" who I asked to upgrade the processor and some memory in a server. Assuming he had some sort of an idea what to do. C'mon its memory and a proc nothing too difficult. As I was working in the next room I could here a few loud bangs. Knowing that banging was not part of the prescribed upgrading. I ran over to find him pounding the proc with his fist into the ZIF Socket. Apparently it wasn't sitting right and his fist was the next best thing to make it fit. Luckily he only bent one pin and the proc was still usable. Needless to say; he was relegated to level 1 help-desk after that incident.
If it doesn't go in, or come out easily you are doing something wrong. That's a life lesson. - heyitsme23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4ooo thats bad, I would never take apart a mac that still had any kind of warranty. I did screw up an old ibook clamshell (broke the wires that were soldiered to the trackpad) but it already had dr pepper poured into it and left on until it fried itself so it was of little concern.
- digason, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"I was fully aware of the two screws behind the battery..."
If he was fully aware, he'd have nothing to complain about. - threemagic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nope, I am mistaken.. I was thinking the Macbook.
Digg me down !!!! - fudgebrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3hmm not according to this. I'm pretty sure you are referring to the Macbooks... not the Macbook Pros...
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/MacBook-Pro/Hard-Drive - idesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wrong. It's just the Macbook.
- betterth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Loaded fast as hell for me =)
- bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Actually, for a first timer, an Apple HD replacement can easily take over an hour."
Unless it's a MacBook, in which case you just remove the battery and pop the HD out. The Titanium PowerBook's HD was pretty easy to replace too (take the bottom off, basically). Apple doesn't intentionally make HD replacements hard, it's just that they put sleek design over convenience occasionally. - reyitocazador, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21. This guy wasn't a newbie
2. This wasn't story wasn't the worst or all that funny
Inn accurate or just lame? You decide. - tidu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"This is my second MacBook Pro, and I took apart my first one with no problems and got it back together. So I considered myself experienced in the art of getting it taken apart and putting it back together."
Love that line ;) - frogstik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1MacBook Pro is almost identical to the PowerBook as far as getting it apart... I was a Mac Genius and the first one always took some time, but now I could tear apart and put back together any mac laptop... it's not too hard, you just have to remember where the screws go, and not to force anything.
Honestly this guy should call AppleCare... they will give him a Prorated refund for the AppleCare and take it to a authorized apple repair place -- not an apple store. They will instantly charge the Tier 4 repair charge and it's like 600 bucks or more... - sumskater41, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kinda makes you wonder why he doesn't still have his first MBP...
- node3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why is it that if there's a digg story about something annoying with a PC, the "Macs don't have this problem" posts get dugg down, but when it's a story about something annoying with a Mac, the "Dells don't have this problem" posts get dugg up?
Even worse, there's a common misperception that it's actually the other way around (why do you think you always see those "I know I'm going to get dugg down, but <something bad about Apple>" posts with a high digg count?). - djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't understand why he doesn't just buy someone's identical broken MacBook off ebay for cheap, and then use it to replace the parts he fubar'd? I mean, if he's careful about it (more than he was during his "upgrade") then he may even fool the Apple techs and keep his warranty.
- asciilogic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1heh! that's an expensive upgrade.
- ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Site's too busy :(
...and I wanted to laugh at the noob. - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Ummm.... Why would you need to take a laptop apart to replace a hard drive? On every laptop I've ever had, the hard drive slides out somehow. Is this not the case on Macbook Pro's? If so, Macbook Pro's must totally suck. What kind of crap laptop doesn't have a user-servicable drive?
- kryptobs2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I enjoyed your story more than the article, why is this on the front page?
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The MacRumors forums are an endless source of entertainment.
- wrow, on 12/12/2007, -0/+0The old PowerBook G3's were just about the easiest things EVER to upgrade. Pull the keyboard off, replace the CPU, RAM, Hard Drive, Airport, etc.
- cpuenvy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Most of the Macs are a pain in the ass when it comes to hard drive replacement. The iBooks have the drive so buried that you have to disassemble the whole unit to get at the drive. Lame.
- willcode4beer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2wonder if its hosted on a Mac?
- Shens, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0that thread was seriously lacking without pics
imo anyhow - FunkyJunk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Hey, not all fourteen year olds are that dumb.
- fuckingusername, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0we can't give the sword of a 1000 truth's to a newb!
but funny story anyhow. - fudgebrown, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2read above post - ;-/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Buried as lame.
- jezzball, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2ew
dr. pepper? - threemagic, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3To exchange a HD in a Mac Book Pro you do not have to take off the top case..it slides out right behind the battery, that's it... that's all there is..
- rsampaio, on 10/12/2007, -7/+228 diggs and its down folks lol
- Iffrat, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3i seen the word mac. DIGG DIGG DIGG GO GO GO!!!
or maybe not.. buried as worthless - gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1"Moral of the story: don't be a dumbass"
Clearly he needs to take his own advice. - Jpantoga, on 10/12/2007, -20/+80MG l0Lzz teh n00b was p//nD!!!!!111one
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