I'm thinking of upgrading my harddrive in my 12inch Powerbook (1Ghz) to a 7200rpm 60gb drive. Is there any downsides to this like reduced battery life or other.
I'm thinking of upgrading my harddrive in my 12inch Powerbook (1Ghz) to a 7200rpm 60gb drive. Is there any downsides to this like reduced battery life or other.
Viktor
Possibly... I myself am planning to do this myself. Is there an installation guide? Apple lets you know how to replace RAM, but I want to know how to get the 4200 out of there...
Very good guides at http://www.pbfixit.com/Guide/ . When i can get a reasonably priced 120 or 160 gig notebook drive then i might muster up the courage to do some of the stuff they talk about doing
I got a significant battery life reduction with a 80 GB 5400 rpm drive, talking about 30-40% of difference in time (compared to 40 GB that it had before). I have the same generation 12" Powerbook than you have by the way.
And with that hard drive it gets hot, like the rev A powerbooks did... (here pics of takeapart by the way) Battery life, temperature (heat) vs speed and spae. I needed space, and am happy with the Powerbook I have, but I think I would not want to try to change that hard drive now to a 7200 rpm one.
I'm thinking of upgrading my harddrive in my 12inch Powerbook (1Ghz) to a 7200rpm 60gb drive. Is there any downsides to this like reduced battery life or other.
Viktor
Why don't you get a 5400rpm 80GB drive, save money, have more space, and get the exact same performance? 7200 rpm laptop drives are mostly gimmicks right now, since the biggest they seem to get is 60GB.
My PC has a 7200rpm (laptop) drive. I wanted the 80GB/5400, but the guy who bought it for me is a programmer, and wasn't keen to understand that a denser palette, when spinning slower, reads, writes, and accesses the same number of bytes as a faster-spinning, less-dense palette.
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Originally posted by farve
I'm thinking of upgrading my harddrive in my 12inch Powerbook (1Ghz) to a 7200rpm 60gb drive. Is there any downsides to this like reduced battery life or other.
Viktor
Possibly... I myself am planning to do this myself. Is there an installation guide? Apple lets you know how to replace RAM, but I want to know how to get the 4200 out of there...
I got a significant battery life reduction with a 80 GB 5400 rpm drive, talking about 30-40% of difference in time (compared to 40 GB that it had before). I have the same generation 12" Powerbook than you have by the way.
And with that hard drive it gets hot, like the rev A powerbooks did... (here pics of takeapart by the way) Battery life, temperature (heat) vs speed and spae. I needed space, and am happy with the Powerbook I have, but I think I would not want to try to change that hard drive now to a 7200 rpm one.
Originally posted by farve
I'm thinking of upgrading my harddrive in my 12inch Powerbook (1Ghz) to a 7200rpm 60gb drive. Is there any downsides to this like reduced battery life or other.
Viktor
Why don't you get a 5400rpm 80GB drive, save money, have more space, and get the exact same performance? 7200 rpm laptop drives are mostly gimmicks right now, since the biggest they seem to get is 60GB.
My PC has a 7200rpm (laptop) drive. I wanted the 80GB/5400, but the guy who bought it for me is a programmer, and wasn't keen to understand that a denser palette, when spinning slower, reads, writes, and accesses the same number of bytes as a faster-spinning, less-dense palette.