Thursday, July 08, 2010

macbook drive dead

The drive in my macbook air died a few days ago. Happily, I found an ebay seller in China with replacement drives (was kind of tempted to get a solid state drive, but decided it wasnt't worht it with the PATA). Anyway, the macbook air is SMALL on the inside, and required removing 17screws of ~4 different lengths in order to get at the drive. The so called "zero insertion force" connector turned out to require a troubling amount of force to re-connect, but everything went well and the macbook is working again. Woo!

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