My HD just fried on my macbook. I was going to replace it with a more stable SSD, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139005. I mostly work with Thinkpads so I am relatively new to mac hardware. Are HD universal between PC laptops and macbooks or do macbooks require specific a specific type of HD? If so how can I find a compatible HD? How hard is it to replace a HD on a mac? The university techs want to charge me $80 to install the HD plus the cost of the HD so I was going to do it myself.
Thanks for the help.
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They are universal. If you've got a plastic Macbook, replacing the HD simply involves removing the battery and undoing a few screws. The SSD you've linked will work with the Macbook, although it is one of the relatively poor performing SSDs out there (still faster than any mechanical HD anywhere near that size, though).
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Budding is right.
I would replace it yourself to save the dough. If you're interested in SSD, I guess Intel is releasing their 2nd Gen SSD's which are supposed to be faster and cheaper.
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One interesting I found of note is, where anandtech mentioned the only two ways to know the difference between the gen 2 version and the older, the new one will have a G2 at the end of the product number, and it will be silver versus black for the old. -
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The 320GB capacity was never slated to be released with the current update unfortunately.
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There was a lot of rumors swirling around that it would be. On the bright side, the 2nd generation X25M drives are faster and cheaper.
http://www.pugetsystems.com/store/?cat=All+Categories&que=X25-M+34nm -
http://hothardware.com/Articles/Intel-34nm-X25M-Gen-2-SSD-Performance-Review/?page=2
Q2 10 we'll have better performing Intel SSDs and 300GB drive (maybe they mean 300GiB which is the binary equivalent of 320GB?) Either way, lower prices for now is still good. -
<s>Newegg just got the new Intel SSD's in stock.</s>
Grrrr, they're gone! They were just there last night.
SSD for macbook
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by dukesucks, Jul 22, 2009.