Hi, On the new intel MacBook and MacBook Pro models you do not void your warranty by installing a new drive or upgrading RAM. In fact, Apple has guides describing how to do this for the MacBook on their support site -- which will even tell you which size screw driver you need. On the PowerPC laptops you did void your warranty if you replaced the hard drive.
I'm pasting in the information excerpted from a post in early February: <begin excerpt> You can get manuals for any of the computers from the Apple Support pages. Google on "Apple support manuals" then type "macbook" in the search field on that page. To look for instructions on replacing memory and hard drive, try typing "macbook do it yourself" in the search field. You'll get links to PDF manuals for memory replacement, hard drive replacement, battery replacement, and a slew of other types of replacement at: http://support.apple.com/manuals/#macbook%20do%20it%20yourself <end excerpt> Just FYI the hard drives of the older Intel MacBook Pro laptops (before the Aluminum Unibody MacBook Pro model) are harder to access, and there are no do it yourself instruction sheets on replacing those at the Apple Support site. You can add these resources from Apple to the nice guides that Chris linked for instructions on upgrading MacBook hard drives (including how to clone the content). For recent posts, you can read the mail archive site for the new list at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ where you can search, read through threads with access keys (e.g. Control-n for next in thread, Control-p for previous in thread using Safari), and view the latest posts as either a time-ordered set of item links (Control-i) or content/threaded set of item links (Control- c). These posts are really simple to search for and link. I haven't found a simple way to direct people to our Google Group web posts in any way that's as easy for VoiceOver navigation. Incidentally, using the mail archive site makes it much easier to read threads that go on over a period of time, or where some posters just include a sentence or two where you're trying to figure out the context. I use this site whenever reading email is inconvenient. Cheers, Esther On Mar 31, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Probably. Is yours less than 12 months old? > > CB > > Dave Wright wrote: >> >> Just out of curiosity, do you void any warranties by installing a >> new drive >> or upgrading ram? >> >> >> Best Regards: >> Dave Wright >> Work Phone: 651-636-5184 X803 >> Email: >> dwri...@gmail.com >> WebPage: >> http://www.knfbreader.com >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Chris Blouch" <cblo...@aol.com> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:56 AM >> Subject: Re: Hard Drive Access. >> >> >> >>> I found these instructions which might be helpful: >>> >>> http://www.macinstruct.com/node/130 >>> >>> The drive is a standard 2.5" SATA drive. Here are a few starting >>> at $48 >>> for an 80GB up to about $100 for a 500GB. >>> >>> http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/ >>> >>> CB >>> >>> George Zaynoun wrote: >>> >>>> Hi folks! >>>> I wonder if the hard drive on the MacBook 13INCH white is user >>>> accessible in case of upgrade and if it is a standard laptop hard >>>> drive >>>> like on the toshiba pc for example, if yes how to access it? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> >>>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
