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It looks like time I upgraded the hard drive on my MacBook Pro 17" Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz (Santa Rosa). I'm thinking of getting one of these.
Any comments or suggestions - other than it looks like a difficult operation to replace the hard drive in one of these. |
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The crunch has come because I want to install some Windows-only software - and that means installing Windows XP. There's only 10GB of spare space on this drive and I suspect that might be a bit of a squeeze.
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Looks good to me. I found instructions here:
http://www.oscot.com/apple/replacing...cbook-pro.html and here: http://www.oscot.com/mac-os-x/clonin...-mac-os-x.html The physical operation appears to be a real PITA, much more involved than the typical Windows machine I work on. |
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If you don't need a lot of room for the software/data itself, 4gb should be plenty of room for a Windows XP install. I have a VM or two that size and still have a GB or so left after installing Windows, Office and other bits.
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