[iBook] replacement harddrive suggestions

[Joe Sporleder]

Of course, an external drive kind of contradicts the reason for having 
a portable in the first place! :-)

Joe

On Oct 10, 2004, at 9:35 PM, Justin Herald wrote:

> I would suggest going with an external firewire my self, you would 
> spend a little less. Plus, depending on where you go, it might be best 
> not to trust your iBook to the store. I had my hard drive replaced at 
> CompUSA (it is free when you buy the hard drive, but they try to get 
> you to pay extra for services like data transfer). They ended up 
> breaking my iBook, but gave me a 600 MHz over a 500 that I put in.
>
> You also have to think about your battery life. With a faster internal 
> HD, your battery life will go down respectively.
>
> Unless you really need the hard drive internal, I would say external 
> all the way.
>
> On Oct 10, 2004, at 9:37 PM, Michael Railton wrote:
>
>> I replaced my 20Gb drive in my 600Mhz iBook with a  40Gb Hitachi 
>> 4200rpm drive. I don't really need the extra speed so I couldn't 
>> justify the price difference.
>>
>> The extra space is nice though.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On 11/10/2004, at 12:28 PM, jack law wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> What do you folks suggest aout harddrive replacement
>>> for a IBook G3 600?  Right now I have the standard 20
>>> gig model.  I would like to purchase a larger drive.
>>> Any suggestions about what make and where to purchase.
>>>  What speed?  Will I notice a speed boost with a
>>> faster drive?  What size offers the best price bargain
>>> at this time?  Thanks for any suggestions.