New Drive for TiBook? (was: Re: [Ti] new drive for macbook)

[Fred]

> From: David Delmonte <ddelmonte at mac.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's Titanium computers."
> <titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:07:01 -0400
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's Titanium computers."
> <titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: New Drive for TiBook? (was: Re: [Ti] new drive for macbook)
> 
> I apologize - bad advice. In the Ti books, I believe that the drives
> are IDE/ATA. In the new machines, they are SATA. The 500 is a SATA.
> 
> I suggest you look at macsales.com, and their staff are very helpful.
> 
> David
> On Apr 20, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:
> 
> 
> On 20-Apr-08, at 2:56 PM, David Delmonte wrote:
> 
>> MacSales (aka Other World Computing) just announced a 500GB 2.5
>> drive that would work. I would be a bit more conservative. But I
>> like Seagate. Their customer service has been great. Only downside,
>> that any firmware updates (only ever had 1 in 10 years), must be
>> performed on a Windows system.
>> 
>> David
> 
> Will this work on a TiBook?

The 500GB drive not only is SATA but it only fits in the 17" MacBook Pro due
to the size of the casing of the drive.