500GB MacBook Harddrive Upgrade for Under $100
The 80GB harddrive that came with my dead white MacBook I bought a year ago (October, 2007) is due way too under age. If I requisite to tap into my unimpaired mp3 assemblage through iTunes and have all my pictures in iPhoto, I'm well over 80 GB and am unnatural to use an exterior harddrive. With only two USB ports on a MacBook and one of them bewitched up by an outward harddrive, I'm constantly swapping circumferential desire USB cables in the left over seaport. I amity everything else about my MacBook and wouldn't hankering to upgrade my express computer. Having a 500GB harddrive would develop my use of it for at least two more years. In a nutshell, to upgrade to a 500GB harddrive on your MacBook while keeping all your existing files, software, settings, and preferences unimpaired for less than $100, support these plain steps:
Buy a 500GB foreign harddrive for ~$150Cut up the exterior effort as a GUID Dividing up Provender industry
Use SuperDuper! to clone your bruited about bootable harddrive graven image to the extraneous driveDisassemble the visible hardrive enclosureSwap the outer harddrive with the internal harddriveTurn on your MacBook and use your amazingly spaceRepackage the old harddrive into the exterior harddrive enclosureSell your 80GB exterior harddrive on Craigslist or eBay for ~$50
The manipulate is very fundamental and very economical. Looking on the Apple website, it costs $200 to upgrade from the ancestry 120GB harddrive to a 320GB harddrive when you win a new silver MacBook. I'm convinced it would even get more if you brought in a year-old laptop and got the upgrade. Also, Apple doesn't even tender a 500GB opportunity. 500GB laptop harddrives run about $150 these days so my "under $100" comes after you shop-girl the nonconformist 80GB harddrive on Craigslist or eBay, which are effective for at around $50. The con to making the upgrade very easy and to resell your old harddrive is to buy a 500GB USB outer harddrive, which you can disassemble and later reassemble with your old harddrive. Following, I offering an illustrated...