MacBook upgrades
Upgraded the Memory and Hard Drive on my Macbook today.
Take out the battery. Remove Three screws. Remove the cover. Replace drive and memory. Start with OS X DVD inserted. Restore from Time Capsule. Job done. |
could you not make it sound difficult or something Jack ? ;) i keep getting tempted with the drive upgrade myself, although i have 160gb im still tempted :)
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It was maybe a little bit trickier than described. Be prepared for a long wait whilst it's restoring and remember to repair disk permissions before turning Time Machine back on.
I went to 320gig from 120 so will be able to dual boot and carry more. Moving from 1 to 2 gig of memory is something I should have done a long time ago. Everything seems to be working as before and it's in sync with my phone and desktop. |
You can use a utility and just copy the image straight over to the other drive apparently so no need to restore but will probably still take ages !
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Yeh I used super duper when I did my Mbp drive. Really quick.
Looking at a new macbook too (what the hell !) |
I went from 2gb to 4gb last weekend. easy upgrade.
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I used SuperDuper - put new disk in USB caddy, image copy. Installed it. Turned it on and off we went.
Only differences were that the harddrive needed to have a new name and it had more space. Very, very easy and very quick. |
Just noticed that because i have a Macbook Pro the upgrade is a little more tricky, and invalidates the warranty, but its out of warranty now anyway so that doesnt bother me. Looks like a 320gb drive will be finding its way into the MBP soon as it gets delivered :)
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Out of interest what did you pay?
Mine 320GB WD Scorpio Black - 62.26 2GB Corsair 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 17.66 Delivery and VAT took that to £95.90 From CCLonline.com who I'd never used before but were very good. It's a whole lot cheaper than a new Macbook and it's running OS X and Ubuntu very well indeed. |
I paid 54 quid for the drive, price is cheaper than retail cos i work for BT so i get discount.
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