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<div><font color="#000000">Tom is right, in his comments down
below.<br>
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I've got a 100gb, 5400rpm Seagate in my 1.33 G4 12" iBook.
The way I figured it was, if I was going to pay the expense of having
someone open up the iBook -- which is expensive and complicated! --
then I would bite the bullet, pay a little more, and get the biggest,
fastest hard drive that I could afford. After all, I only want
to do this once!<br>
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The 120gig drives are still too expensive (BIG price jump up from the
100gb). But the price jump from the 60gb to 80gb is pretty
small, and so is the jump up to 100gb.<br>
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And the 5400rpm drive really does give a performance boost over the
4200rpm one. <br>
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So, if you're GOING to replace the drive, don't mickey-mouse around --
do it with gusto! You will NOT regret it! You'll benefit
from the extra speed -- and the extra storage! -- every day you own
your iBook.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">You can get a<font face="Arial"> Seagate
Momentus 5400.2 ST9100824A 100GB Ultra ATA/100 5400RPM 2.5in Mobile
Hard Drive from ZipZoomFly.com for $141, which includes shipping.
Other vendors have comparable prices. </font></font></div>
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BTW: I'm running an identical Seagate drive as a backup drive in
an external case. The drives have never given me a bit of
trouble, and yes, they've got a 5-year warranty.</font><font
color="#000000"><br>
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Cheers and aloha -<br>
RJLaue</font></div>
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Just my opinion, but if you're going to go through all the work to
replace<br>
the hard drive in an iBook, which is not a trivial task, you should
spring<br>
the extra bucks for a 5400 RPM drive. With OS X, every place you
can<br>
improve speed helps, and I noticed more speed improvement from a
5400RPM<br>
hard disk upgrade than from my extra RAM.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Tom</blockquote>
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