Re: quotes, happy macs, hard drive upgrades

2002-12-17 Thread Stan Michael
Hello all, I get the digest mode, so please bear with me: Laurent: Great quote! "Let's move on, these are not the droids that we are looking for." Now THAT would be a good signature line Happy Mac: I always understood it was gone as of Mac OS X. I think MacAddict published a hack to mak

Re: hard drive upgrades

2002-05-29 Thread Brian Scott Oplinger
>I have the same case with a 20G Travelstar. Finally purchased a power supply >from Radio Shack so the drive would quit spinning down when it should be >running. Also, with external power it can be used to boot my TiBook. > >Also should have kept the Newer Firewire2Go card so the drive and digital

Re: hard drive upgrades

2002-05-29 Thread John Koen
At one point back in January, about a week after I bought my 48 GB IBM Travelstar, Dell.com had the 60GB ones for sale at around the same price that I paid for 48 Gigs. It was the the same IBM Travelstar brand, just larger. Of course, they want you to buy a Dell computer, but you're better off

Re: hard drive upgrades

2002-05-29 Thread Eugene Lee
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:24:29AM -0700, Mike Ferguson wrote: : : AFAIK any 2.5inch drive will work, Not true. The 2.5" drive must be 12.5 mm or shorter. : but these tend to be much more : expensive than the 3.5inch ones used in desktops. But I'm sure someone : on the list will know of a sou

Re: hard drive upgrades

2002-05-29 Thread Dick Grable
I have the same case with a 20G Travelstar. Finally purchased a power supply from Radio Shack so the drive would quit spinning down when it should be running. Also, with external power it can be used to boot my TiBook. Also should have kept the Newer Firewire2Go card so the drive and digital camc

Re: hard drive upgrades

2002-05-29 Thread Brian Scott Oplinger
> AFAIK any 2.5inch drive will work, but these tend to be much more >expensive than the 3.5inch ones used in desktops. But I'm sure >someone on the list will know of a source for bargains... Just got a 40G IBM Travelstar from newegg along with a USB 1.1/FW 2.5 enclosure from computergeeks.co

Re: hard drive upgrades

2002-05-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I replaced mine with the 48 gig 5400 RPM IBM Travelstar and got it from Other World Computing. It's great and fairly easy to install. There is an installation assist page on www.xlr8yourmac.com Makes it easy if you're careful. Real quiet drive and faster. I also added 512 meg of Ram while 5 was

Re: hard drive upgrades

2002-05-29 Thread Mike Ferguson
AFAIK any 2.5inch drive will work, but these tend to be much more expensive than the 3.5inch ones used in desktops. But I'm sure someone on the list will know of a source for bargains... On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 08:59AM, Thomas Peri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi > >I'm looking into re

hard drive upgrades

2002-05-29 Thread Thomas Peri
Hi I'm looking into replacing the 6GB hard drive in my Pismo with a 40GB one. Will just any ATA/UDMA notebook hard drive do, or are there some that won't work in a Powerbook? If there are some that will work and some that won't, is there a compatibility chart somewhere? The reason I ask is