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Monkey wrenching on a laptop
I’ve never owned a laptop so I’m wondering if they are easy to upgrade yourself or do you need a locksmith capable of unlocking the davinci code just to get in? I’m thinking of getting one but was blown away by the cost of options. Going from an 80GB HDD to a 120 is $240.00! I’ve always assumed laptops used special physically smaller HDD’s but according to the fine print it is a normal sata drive (which I can get off the shelf for real cheap, 300GB = $125.00.) Can you put one that big in a laptop? Going from 512MB ram to 2GB ram is $600.00! This is on a new mac book that just came out. I have a good pry bar, a hammer and some other tools, can someone shed some light on this or point me to a laptop wrencher’s user group?
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You might not be looking at the right kind of hard drive, as I haven’t heard of a 300gb sata in the 2.5″ form factor used in laptops.
Here’s a video on how to take the ram and hard drive out of a macbook:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8c6ckjy-gdY
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Thanks Steve! If a picture is worth a thousand words, that video spoke volumes! Great design! but I was looking at the wrong HDD. Doesn’t look like you can save by upgrading it yourself but I don’t know about the ram. It is $600.00 CND to go from 512 up to 2GB so a person needs to find the right ram for less than that. Too bad you couldn’t order the laptop with no ram. The only ram I’ve found so far with the right numbers (667 ddr2) is in long strips for the towers. It’s only $200.00 for 2 GB! By the look of it you’d have to cut the strip in half and glue the top edge to the bottom edge and it would kinda look like the laptop ram. There would have to be some soldering invoved too…. It’s just never easy to save a little money.
I don’t like to sound like a cheapscape but these two option upgrades add over 50% price increase on the computer.Just found an interesting thread through google on this topic:
https://forums.appleinsider.com/printthread.php?s=15d7973fc02b2ad5b8445917715253d2&threadid=63530
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