500GB MacBook and MacBook Pro HD?

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coolbreezecoolbreeze
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Is this what I think it is? I really need this and have been waiting. It looks like this will work in my 15 inch MBP.



http://www.macproworks.com/servlet/t...-HD/Categories



Are my eyes deceiving me?

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    jbljbl Posts: 555member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by coolbreeze View Post


    Is this what I think it is? I really need this and have been waiting. It looks like this will work in my 15 inch MBP.



    http://www.macproworks.com/servlet/t...-HD/Categories



    Are my eyes deceiving me?



    I don't think so.



    Here is another one:



    http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Hitachi/0A53487/



    My question is, is there a way of installing one that doesn't void the warranty.



    edit: oops I guess mine will not work in your 15", but I have a 17" :-)
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    coolbreezecoolbreeze Posts: 36member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by JBL View Post


    I don't think so.



    Here is another one:



    http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Hitachi/0A53487/



    My question is, is there a way of installing one that doesn't void the warranty.



    edit: oops I guess mine will not work in your 15", but I have a 17" :-)



    Yea the Hitachi is 12.5mm therefore will not work in 15 inch. My warranty is expired and have nothing to lose. However, I plan to eventually buy a new 17 inch. I will get Apple Store to replace. That way the warranty will not be voided?
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    milimetersquaredmilimetersquared Posts: 62member
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    Originally Posted by coolbreeze View Post


    Yea the Hitachi is 12.5mm therefore will not work in 15 inch. My warranty is expired and have nothing to lose. However, I plan to eventually buy a new 17 inch. I will get Apple Store to replace. That way the warranty will not be voided?



    i'm pretty sure that upgrading your hard drive yourself on a mb doesn't void your warentee, and i don't know why it would be much different on an mbp…
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    tontontonton Posts: 14,067
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    i'm pretty sure that upgrading your hard drive yourself on a mb doesn't void your warentee, and i don't know why it would be much different on an mbp?



    Upgrading your HD doesn't void your warranty on ANY system from ANY vendor, unless you break something doing it.
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  • Reply 5 of 5
    carycary Posts: 2member
    With my warranty ending in a couple of weeks I decided to upgrade my HD which was rapidly decreasing in available space to the point I couldn't boot my boot camp partition in VMWare because I didn't have 2G of available space. If you are interested in doing this yourself I outlined how I did this on my 17" MBP with a Hitachi 500GB HD.



    http://www.strategicinformatics.com/?p=206



    Important to me was preserving my OS X and Boot Camp installations. Restoring OS X was super easy but I didn't feel like reinstalling Windows again and registering my applications again. If you have this same setup I also posted how I moved and increased the size of the partitions in the process.





    http://www.strategicinformatics.com/?p=170



    Hope this helps...
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