appleinsider.com— Owners of Apple Computer's new MacBook consumer notebooks will find that upgrading or replacing the computer's hard disk is as simple as adding more memory.
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You do NOT void you warranty by opening the machine and changing the hard drive. The deal is that your warranty does not cover anything that you break while doing so.
I'm also not impressed. I have a 2-year old HP zt3000 (the HP equivalent of the Compaq x1000) and I just recently replaced the hard drive in about 2 minutes - 2 screws and the hard drive pops out of a convenient slot on the bottom. And just like Fett's laptop, both RAM slots are easily accessible, as well as the miniPCI. The video card and processor can also be replaced with a little more effort. This is all just another example of how everyone goes crazy when Apple reinvents the wheel...yawn...
Canthros, various wintel laptops have had swapable video cards for a shot while. I don't know what good they are currently as the laptop manfuactrers seem to have their own lil formats so you don't really have much in the way of choice. It's a good start though.
I purchased my ThinkPad over two years ago, and its hard disk drive slides right out. Apple should be commended for improving their product, but they shouldn't be credited with any sort of innovation because of this.I can almost hear it now: "Apple just added a second button below their laptops' touchpads! They're geniuses!" ;)
youse guys, come on just live with the fact some of us use pc's and some use macs. neither are inferior or superior, they have there plus's and minus's.i think this story is a waste of digg's and our time lets get on with our self-orientated life's.no digg as this is just another pc vs mac war bulls**t story.
i admit i read through these comments pretty fast, so forgive me if this was already stated, but why on earth hasn't anyone mentioned that this doesn't void the warranty? that is the important part. oh, and it's not a stupidly thick thinkpad either (sorry).
Sorry, but i bought a macbook for use in the music industry, put windows on it and found that ALL my music software works better in windows, way better. This Mac OS hype is not what it is made out to be. Sure its easy to use, but the tradeoff is less capability. to top it off, Apple always sreamed out that its motorola processors were so superior and then changed to intel and now say that they perform 4-5 times faster than the motorola processors, gimme a break. In other words, I took a bite of my Apple and it was rotten. Its a nice computer on the outside, but i'll never buy another one.
I can’t speak for MacBook, I have last years iBook and a PC Desktop. There is defiantly a trade off between the two. Some good, some BAD!! I don’t use my iBook for anything serious. A few flash/web designs, blogging and email -- nothing that it can’t handle. The PC does the dirty work.I could have used that easy-ass way of getting the hard drive out of that iBook. “Replace your iBook’s hard drive in 90 minutes”, MY ASS! It took 10 hours and that laptop was in pieces, with a 1,000 tiny little screws – each having to be labeled in Tupperware in order to get that crap back together again. The entire weekend shot to hell.
chadseldMay 17, 2006
You do NOT void you warranty by opening the machine and changing the hard drive. The deal is that your warranty does not cover anything that you break while doing so.
jasondeltaMay 17, 2006
I'm also not impressed. I have a 2-year old HP zt3000 (the HP equivalent of the Compaq x1000) and I just recently replaced the hard drive in about 2 minutes - 2 screws and the hard drive pops out of a convenient slot on the bottom. And just like Fett's laptop, both RAM slots are easily accessible, as well as the miniPCI. The video card and processor can also be replaced with a little more effort. This is all just another example of how everyone goes crazy when Apple reinvents the wheel...yawn...
truegodMay 17, 2006
you get a hard drive upgrade so it's actually "only" $100 for the black case... But it does sucks you pay more just for the blackness.
fett101May 17, 2006
Canthros, various wintel laptops have had swapable video cards for a shot while. I don't know what good they are currently as the laptop manfuactrers seem to have their own lil formats so you don't really have much in the way of choice. It's a good start though.
twitheadMay 17, 2006
I purchased my ThinkPad over two years ago, and its hard disk drive slides right out. Apple should be commended for improving their product, but they shouldn't be credited with any sort of innovation because of this.I can almost hear it now: "Apple just added a second button below their laptops' touchpads! They're geniuses!" ;)
errerMay 17, 2006
No, the hard drive upgrade only costs 50 bucks on the Apple site. Therefore, 150 dollars for black.
doodahMay 18, 2006
youse guys, come on just live with the fact some of us use pc's and some use macs. neither are inferior or superior, they have there plus's and minus's.i think this story is a waste of digg's and our time lets get on with our self-orientated life's.no digg as this is just another pc vs mac war bulls**t story.
johnclayJun 25, 2006
damn double posts...
johnclayJun 25, 2006
You are wrong in this assumption, as it is a different interface (ATA to SATA).
ewikSep 26, 2006
i admit i read through these comments pretty fast, so forgive me if this was already stated, but why on earth hasn't anyone mentioned that this doesn't void the warranty? that is the important part. oh, and it's not a stupidly thick thinkpad either (sorry).
dave750Oct 16, 2006
Sorry, but i bought a macbook for use in the music industry, put windows on it and found that ALL my music software works better in windows, way better. This Mac OS hype is not what it is made out to be. Sure its easy to use, but the tradeoff is less capability. to top it off, Apple always sreamed out that its motorola processors were so superior and then changed to intel and now say that they perform 4-5 times faster than the motorola processors, gimme a break. In other words, I took a bite of my Apple and it was rotten. Its a nice computer on the outside, but i'll never buy another one.
crlakeOct 23, 2006
I can’t speak for MacBook, I have last years iBook and a PC Desktop. There is defiantly a trade off between the two. Some good, some BAD!! I don’t use my iBook for anything serious. A few flash/web designs, blogging and email -- nothing that it can’t handle. The PC does the dirty work.I could have used that easy-ass way of getting the hard drive out of that iBook. “Replace your iBook’s hard drive in 90 minutes”, MY ASS! It took 10 hours and that laptop was in pieces, with a 1,000 tiny little screws – each having to be labeled in Tupperware in order to get that crap back together again. The entire weekend shot to hell.