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I have a 1st gen MacBook Pro.
I want to install a 500GB HD in to it. That is 7200RPM.
What should I get. I heard a while back that some of the 500GB HD had issues with the unibody macs.
Thanks for any advice.
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I have a 1st Gen MBP. While there are detailed instructions on how to install a HD on iFixit.com, it is a total rip up that even discourages me.
I think I'll be upgrading soon.
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He has a 1st-generation UNIBODY, as per thread title.
Swapping drives is a complete piece of cake, and is meant to be able to be done by the consumer.
I've put a Seagate Momentus 7.200 RPM drive in my 'Book (2006 Core 2 Duo), and it works fine. But it needs to be the part number ending on "…AS", and not on "…ASG", as the latter has a G-Force sensor that can conflict with the MacBooks' built-in one.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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This is one of the things I'm less than thrilled with about the newest Unibody machines. While it doesn't look quite as daunting as Eriamjh paints it (to me, anyway), the newest machines are a much harder nut to crack as it were. I'm glad we got my wife's MacBook just before the newest ones came out; when it's time to upgrade her, it'll be cake.
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The newest require just a few more screws to be unfastened (you needed a screwdriver before too). OTOH you don't need a coin and you get 7h battery life. They are by no means "a much harder nut to crack".
Considering that I always need more battery life, but swap my disk no more than three times during the entire life of my MBP, I think Apple made an excellent call there.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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I think the reason I said the newest Unibodies are a "harder nut to crack" is the unsettled feeling I get when opening the case of any laptop/notebook. The guts are always more delicate than desktops' parts, and being more compact and smaller makes the process more difficult for someone like me with centimeter-wide fingertips. Of course I've never received a nasty gash from working inside a notebook case; I've "christened" way more PC desktop cases than I care to think about that way. 
But you're right-it's only 10 #00 Phillips screws (3 are much longer than the others) that secure the bottom cover, and then the whole machine is open. Being solid metal, the bottom of the machine is easy to handle and won't flex and break the way plastic cases on cheap laptops used to. The only really challenging part seems to be replacing the screws in the right order-and that's listed in the DIY instructions Apple provides.
But it is still harder than just flipping a couple of latches and taking off the battery cover. Not much, but a bit.
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