Mike / Michael Fogel » mac http://www.fogel.ca soapbox and search engine spam Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:50:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Hard Drive Replacement http://www.fogel.ca/2009/04/09/hard-drive-replacement/ http://www.fogel.ca/2009/04/09/hard-drive-replacement/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:58:58 +0000 Mike Fogel http://blog.fogel.ca/?p=487 I had to remove a few hard drives from a few laptops this morning to do some swapping.  Some of them went really easy, others, not so much.  For quick comparison, here’s the basic stats on the hard drive removal process for each.

Mac PowerBook G4:

  • Tools: #0 & #1 Phillips, 1.5 mm Allen wrench
  • Screws: 34
  • Connectors: 5
  • 4 Keys
  • Battery, ram cover, keyboard, front cover, hard drive casing
  • 90 min
  • High probability of inflicting cosmetic damage to laptop
  • You need a guide, and plenty of organization and patience

removing apple HD 1

removing apple HD 2

HP OmniBook 9000:

  • #1 Phillips
  • 3 Screws
  • 5 minutes

removing hp HD

IBM T61p:

  • #1 Phillips
  • 5 Screws
  • 5 minutes

removing ibm HD

IBM wins as having the most user-friendly design, followed closely by HP. Apple… uh, yeah right.

Apple’s products tend to be very user-friendly as long as you fit nicely into one of their predefined use cases… hard drive replacement apparently isn’t one of their use cases.

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