E. Riley Casey > I must have mis-read the original post. I was talking about > tower model Macs when I said that the level of difficulty was > on a par with hooking up your home stereo. If your looking > to upgrade the innards of a Powerbook / MacBook then I would > look at the disassembly guides at http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/ > and decide if your model lends itself to minor or major > surgery. I just completely disassembled an Aluminum > Powerbook down to an empty shell using the guides there and > I'm typing now on that computer. Of course I spent a few > years as an electronic technician many moons ago so my > threshold of pain for such things may be different. ;-)
I replaced the hard drive on a 12" Macbook (using the instructions from ifixit, ~11 pages long) and it worked again. When the optical drive died, I d/l'ed the instructions, looked them over (22 pages), decided to try the operation. It turns out that didn't work, I got stuck on page 12(?), removing a stud(?) on heatsink(?) - it's been 5 or 6 months, details are past fuzzy) the other end broke loose. At several hundred bucks to fix it at a minimum, probably much more, it wasn't worth it. BTW, I replaced that Mac with this MacBook Pro last month. BTW, while I didn't fix them for a living, I did work on PC's for a while occasionally (replacing floppies, disk drives, etc.) -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly When in doubt, form a committee ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
