At 8:21 AM -0400 on 8/4/05, Bradley Ellis wrote: >Good question. I guess I was lucky. When I spoke with an AppleCare >technician, I was advised to reconfigure my PowerBook back to the >original configuration before I shipped my PowerBook back to Apple >(to avoid any potential warranty void issues). I dutifully followed >said advice and had no problems (in fact, AppleCare replaced my >orginal 30 gig hard drive - which had been acting as a "back-up" >drive for my wife's pc). I think you were lucky. AppleCare told me that it was the act of removing the drive, even by an Apple dealer--whether I later replaced the original drive or not--that would void the warranty. This was quite a change from the WallStreet/Lombard/Pismo days, when you could swap a drive in and out (it only took a couple of minutes) without a warranty violation. David