Just upgraded my macbook to 250 gigs for $100!

[mccoy178]

I saw this deal on www.slickdeals.net, and ordered it Friday.  I received it yesterday and viola!  I have a much larger hd now.


It was the easiest thing I've ever done outside of swapping ram.  I was going to pay a company to do it, as I've opened laptops before, but luckily the guy said he didn't know if his software could copy everything over.  So I did a google search and found out that the hd is right beside the battery and slid right out!  So I also saved the $50 labor I was going to be charged. I cloned the old hd onto an external before removal, then used carbon copy cloner on my imac to transfer the files to the new drive installed in the macbook.

So, in conclusion, if you have been considering an upgrade, this is a pretty good deal.  Even if you have to pay someone $40-50 to install it.

[boykster]

too bad you're still stuck using a mac though 

[mccoy178]

True dat!

[Ed_McCarron]

"It was the easiest thing I've ever done outside of swapping ram."

It is a Mac.  If Mac users could handle the responsibility, they'd be PC owners.

[RayB]

Leave it to a Mac user to be so proud of so little.

 
(It's a good price though. I won't knock that.)

[ChadTower]

How did he build that Ohio State cab without attaching any hard drives?   

[Level42]

"It was the easiest thing I've ever done outside of swapping ram."

It is a Mac.  If Mac users could handle the responsibility, they'd be PC owners.

What a total ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow---.
I've owned loads of PC's, have maintained them professionally, been a support-pro and can handle any hardware upgrade, god knows, I'm even a MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer).

And at one point in time, you realize you're completely wasting time on maintaing your (and others) computers instead of USING them.

So I switched and I will never switch back again.

Have fun with your vista.

[Ed_McCarron]

What a total ---smurf-poop---.

I wasn't serious.  Its an inside joke.

Oh, and Vista is still working.  Hasn't broken my spirit yet.

[mccoy178]

Macs are the most user friendly computers I've ever used.

[Havok]

Macs are the most user friendly computers I've ever used.

Sure...

Macs just work

[ChadTower]

He has trouble working on his Mac because it's a P-P-Powerbook.

[koolmoecraig]

"It was the easiest thing I've ever done outside of swapping ram."

It is a Mac.  If Mac users could handle the responsibility, they'd be PC owners.

Just what I want, to have to have "responsibility" when using a computer. In other words I need to treat my computer like a child of some sort.

A computer should serve you, not the other way around.  It's no badge of honor to have to constantly patch, update, virus scan, registry scan and every other scan.  Screw that.

Macs are great computers.  Overpriced but still great.



 

[RayB]

A computer should serve you, not the other way around.  It's no badge of honor to have to constantly patch, update, virus scan, registry scan and every other scan.  Screw that.

Macs are great computers.  Overpriced but still great.

You do understand that Macs still crash, like any other computer. Mac software still crashes, like software on any other computer. There's no magic super-power in mac OS or mac software that makes them impervious to programming bugs.

And as for virii, that's just a false sense of security due to being a minority computer. Macs aren't impervious to viruses. The risk is less because virus writers aren't bothering to target that platform. But this is changing. If everyone switched to Mac the virus authors would write em for Macs and you'd be in exactly the same boat.

[ChadTower]

A computer should serve you, not the other way around.  It's no badge of honor to have to constantly patch, update, virus scan, registry scan and every other scan.  Screw that.

Yeah!  Screw cars.  Screw homes.  Screw bikes!  Screw your pinball machines.  Screw anything that requires maintenance!

I think I'll do that.  I can live spending my days with a racquetball and a pencil.

[Havok]

It's no badge of honor to have to constantly patch, update, virus scan, registry scan and every other scan.  Screw that.

Yeah - because there's no possible way to automate all that! Oh wait, most Mac users don't know HOW computers work, just how to click the pretty pictures...

My pc constantly patches, updates, scans, deletes unused temp files and defrags itself - at 3am every day. Guess what? When I go to use the computer, I just use it. And, I've been running the same build on this pc for the past three years plus - works as fast as the day I built it. This is through all kinds of programs being installed, uninstalled and installed again.

To each their own, but just don't give me that crap about how Mac is superior - it used to be, but that's ancient history...

[mccoy178]

Macs are superior!

[Ed_McCarron]

And as for virii, that's just a false sense of security due to being a minority computer.

Nah, the virus writers just figure the Mac users have suffered enough already.

[Havok]

Macs are superior!

 

[koolmoecraig]

A computer should serve you, not the other way around.  It's no badge of honor to have to constantly patch, update, virus scan, registry scan and every other scan.  Screw that.

Yeah!  Screw cars.  Screw homes.  Screw bikes!  Screw your pinball machines.  Screw anything that requires maintenance!

I think I'll do that.  I can live spending my days with a racquetball and a pencil.

Yeah those cars that required constant maintenance are the reason why the auto industry in this country is on the verge of imploding.  We had our asses handed to us by Japanese.  Why?  Because their cars WORKED without constantly having crap break down on them.  The sole reason American cars are better today is because of the Japanese auto invasion. Period.  If they weren't forced to improve quality to compete they would still be pieces of crap or they'd be out of business. Toyota is about to surpass GM as the #1 automaker in the world. At last check GM was only ahead by 10,000 units.  Can you say fleet sales anyone?  Oh how the mighty have fallen.

You are going to compare houses, pinball machines and bikes to a computer? Give me a break man.  Of course anything with mechanical moving parts is going to need maintenance of some sort.  I'm not talking about the moving parts in it.  In talking about computers I am talking about the software, drivers, etc. When was the last time that you had to lube your hard drive like a bike chain??? Lame argument.

How many electronic parts are on a bike?  What fails 99% of the time on a pinball machine?  The mechanical switches and coils.  The moving parts.  The electronic parts rarely fail unless they are poorly designed or they are overloaded by a failed MECHANICAL component or switch.

As for houses, once again when something electronic fails its usually because of poor construction or engineering.  If you kept blowing fuses in your house would you chalk up rewiring the house to maintenance?  No, you would figure out what was WRONG, fix it and be done with.  Most problems that arise with houses are not electrical. Plumbing? Painting?  Roofing? Flooring?  This is such a stupid argument as they are not even remotely related.

Of course Macs have problems buts FAR less often than PCs.  That point can't even be argued.  Whether it's because there are far less Macs out there or what doesn't matter.  I'm simply stating a fact.  If Macs made up a majority of the computer market then yes there might be more problems with them due to more viruses but as of now it's not the case.

You say that Mac users don't know how computers work but PC users do? You think the average PC user knows how PCs work? Pfffff. You think the average PC user "constantly patches, updates, scans, deletes unused temp files and defrags" their computer? Yeah right.  Besides, why should they have to?  Also, where do you think a MAJORITY of these Mac users came from?  Most of them weren't born using Macs.  They converted because they obviously had a dislike of their PC.  I would love love love love to see some numbers of people who quit using Macs in order to switch to PCs. HA!

Back to the lame argument for a second...Does the average person know HOW cars work nowadays?  No they do not.  They take them to mechanics to do most of the work and if they had to do that often nobody would buy those cars.  They'd buy a car that didn't require constant maintenance.

I think the reason that you have less problems with Mac is because of the fact that they use standardized components. Of course this allows Apple to effectively control their prices.

The ultimate goal for any product whether it be mechanical, electrical, electronic whatever is to be as MAINTENANCE FREE as possible. This leads to more sales, happy customers, higher profits.  Whether you know how to work on something does not make that something better.  The goal is to never have to.

Also of note: Article #457 of the BYOAC message boards clearly states: "If you are going to respond to any post by KoolMoeCraig, you are required to reference asterisks and/or comedy in addition to the the word "funny".  If and when possible, try to incorporate all three for maximum comedic effect.  Ending your response with an image of Donkey Kong rolling his eyes is highly appreciated as well.  Contact "CheffoJeffo" if you have any questions."

Let's try to stick to that people, OK?  You guys really dropped the ball in this post.

[Havok]

You think the average PC user "constantly patches, updates, scans, deletes unused temp files and defrags" their computer? Yeah right.

Actually - most do now, since SP2 came out, "secure by default" is the newer configuration out of the box. Granted since I'm an IT professional, I am not average by any stretch, and most people don't do the defrag and temp file deletion, but Microsoft has made great strides to make their setup better. If you don't have anti-virus running, with current definitions you get a popup warning you. If you don't have a firewall running, you get a popup warning you. If you don't have your system patched with the latest critical updates... that's right - you get a popup warning you, and an option to click here and have them automatically installed for you.

If you go toe to toe with Mac and MS security holes - maybe you should check this out:

http://www.macnn.com/print/49706

One of these days somebody is going to write a virus for Macs, and you guys will be caught with your pants down.

Enjoy it while it lasts...

[ChadTower]

I stopped reading that diatribe at "moving parts".

Software has more "moving parts" than bicycles.  An OS has more moving parts than a bicycle store.  Just because dude doesn't see or understand them doesn't make them any less of a "moving part".

[Hoopz]

Also of note: Article #457 of the BYOAC message boards clearly states: "If you are going to respond to any post by KoolMoeCraig, you are required to reference asterisks and/or comedy in addition to the the word "funny".  If and when possible, try to incorporate all three for maximum comedic effect.  Ending your response with an image of Donkey Kong rolling his eyes is highly appreciated as well.  Contact "CheffoJeffo" if you have any questions."

Let's try to stick to that people, OK?  You guys really dropped the ball in this post.

Now THAT is actually pretty funny.   

My two cents is that the PC v. Mac debate is more heated than any political topic.   

[Guaranos]

I like my Mac a lot.  Sure, you still need to patch it once a month, and yeah, you still have the risk of viruses, which is currently a bit lower than Windows for a couple of reasons (#1 - smaller market share, #2 - different philosophy on user rights), but I like it for the user experience. 

Personally, I like the GUI better, I like Expose and a few of those other little features, and I like that it is more stable than my XP box ever was.  But the biggest factor for me is that it's different.  I work with Windows and Linux machines all day.  I was a programmer for DOS and Windows in my free time for years (decades even).  The Mac's just another platform with a different look and feel, and since I don't have to work on one all day, it doesn't feel like I'm still at work when I'm using it at home.

As for that macnn article, I read that back when it came out and remember all the fuss, but as an info security professional, I take it with a grain of salt.  There's a lot of ways to twist the statistics they used in either direction.  For example, you can look at how many were patched before they were exploited.  Also, they consider all Mac patches to be patches to the same OS, while they split out the ones from XP and Vista.  Combining the patches of OS 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 is the same as combining the patches of Windows 2000, XP, and Vista, which they didn't do.  There's also the question of how many vulnerabilities were truly fixed vs how many were reported, since there's no way to verify what Microsoft actually patched, and most of the Apple fixes were for open source components that they include in the OS.  It was a nice article in that it got people thinking about Mac security, though.

[koolmoecraig]

I stopped reading that diatribe at "moving parts".

Software has more "moving parts" than bicycles.  An OS has more moving parts than a bicycle store.  Just because dude doesn't see or understand them doesn't make them any less of a "moving part".

Actually, if you are going to quote somebody, especially to prove your point, you should quote them correctly.  I said "MECHANICAL moving part".

Nice of you to leave that out in crafting your deft response.  You are better than that Chad.  I was expecting a proper rebuttal. Guess I'll chalk that one up.

Also Chad, Article #457. Please.

[ChadTower]

Actually, if you are going to quote somebody, especially to prove your point, you should quote them correctly.  I said "MECHANICAL moving part".

They are "mechanical" in this context.  Your computer would work stably, and consistently, if you weren't constantly installing new things, uninstalling old things, and making general configuration changes to the operating system.  They are moving parts because you move them.  All computer users do.  Then they proceed to complain about how much effort it takes - well, stop changing the system, and it will stop requiring attention.

Put a little thought into it and tack on a bit of common sense.

Also Chad, Article #457. Please.

You keep saying that like anyone here gives a crap how you want to be addressed.  I want you to be addressed as "craig the stinkbomb".  Consider it formally proposed to the community at large.

[RayB]

A hard drive is "mechanical".

[koolmoecraig]

Yeah, I acknowledged that with "When was the last time that you had to lube your hard drive like a bike chain???"

-Stinkbomb

[Ed_McCarron]

We had our asses handed to us by Japanese.  Why?  Because their cars WORKED without constantly having crap break down on them.

Hey, is Nintendo Japanese?  Might explain their sticks never breaking.

[ChadTower]

Yeah, I acknowledged that with "When was the last time that you had to lube your hard drive like a bike chain???"

-Stinkbomb

If you are any good at PC maintenance you have regularly scheduled defrags.  Almost the same concept as lubing.

[protokatie]

Ive used: Basic 2.0, Basic 7.0, CPM, DOS, Amiga OS (1.3, 2.0, 3.0), Windows (3.1, 95, ME, XP, Vista), MacOS (7.1, 8, 9),Linux(Redhat,Knoppix,etcetcetc) and a whole tonne of others, and here is what I say: Nothing beat the amiga OS after 2.0, esp with Dopus as the front end. Just the best set-up for an OS, simple, powerfull, and sleek (There were more ways to mod the OS on the Amiga than I can care to shake a stick at).

On top of that, I currently use Vista, and have only had 2 crashes in a year. Ive had the display driver crash 4 times (trying to get an old monitor t work in too high a res) but vista caught the driver crash and restarted the driver. So, basically, get a computer for what you are going to do with it. (For those people out there that have major problems with Vista, its more due to upgrading to Vista, as opposed to buying a new computer meant for it. Bad policy from M$ I say, to have such a change in how the driver system works, without allowing better legacy support)

[Kangum]

thats not a bad deal. i duel boot on my macbook so it might be worth it for the extra space for me. the only thing holding me back is i dont have the software to make an image of the hard drive. so i would have to re install both operating systems again.

good price though-

[Ed_McCarron]

Any truth to this?

http://www.macnn.com/print/49706

[pointdablame]

Any truth to this?

http://www.macnn.com/print/49706

It's on the internet... it must be true.