On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 08:39 PM, Jeremy Derr wrote: > On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 10:00 PM, Christopher D Helmkamp wrote: > >> Someone replied to one of my posts a while back that changing the hard >> drive in an Apple notebook does not actually void the warranty, just >> anything you screw up isn't covered under your warranty. >> >> Can I get verification that this is true? I am confident I can do the >> switch safely and I am willing to pay should I screw something up in >> the process, but I want to make sure if something unrelated (like my >> screen) goes before its time, Apple's warranty will still cover it >> even >> though I've changed drives. >> >> The response to this is crucial to how soon I can take this noisy and >> slow stock 20GB drive out and replace it with a 5400 RPM 40GB drive. >> If I can do this now before "waiting out" my warranty period, I won't >> have to buy an external drive because I can get an external case for >> the switched out drive. > > Apple Warranty: Installing Memory, Expansion Cards, User Installable > Parts Does Not Void Warranty > <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=13946> > > read that knowledge base article. > Keep in mind that the advice (that I gave in particular) was related to Powerbook (Pismo and TiBook) models. I know for a fact that the hard drive is NOT user-upgradeable in any iBook models. I'm only mentioning this because I saw in yout sig that you have an iBook 700. That's a lot tougher to upgrade and will void your warranty.
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