hey people. i have reached the 150gb limit on my mac book pro and kinda confused as to what to do about it i dont store dvd's on my hard drive just music and pictures. my itunes is 60gb and then the rest must be filled up with something (not quite sure what lol) what options do i have? I was thinking about upgrading the hdd, but knowing me id break it... help !
If you can't readily identify what's taking up the space even once you've assessed all the data you know you have on there, just clear it out. Copy over everything you want to save to an external drive, and then wipe the HDD and reinstall OS X, then copy the things you need on the laptop back. Upgrading a MacBook's harddrive is something entirely possible within the warranty, so if you think this might happen again follow a decent guide online and install any 2.5" SATA laptop drive with a usefully larger capacity (320GB+, ideally).
thanks, ive looked into it and it appears you cannot change the mac book pro's hdd without voiding your warranty. plus its a whole new ball game compared to replacing the macbook's hdd
You can upgrade the hard drive, including opening up your laptop, as long as you do NOT break anything or remove any "warranty void" stickers. Apple may throw a bit of a wobbly, but you're allowed to do it.
I'm surprised Apple don't cut your hands off if you try to change the hard disk. Apple are normally very particular about people messing with 'their' hardware.
yeah im pretty sure they do. they only allow you to upgrade the hdd on a macbook, i find that totally stupid.
What kind of MacBook do you have? I have a 13" unibody MacBook from a little over a year ago, and I can access both my HDD and my battery through a removable battery cover. I can also change either in addition to my RAM without voiding my warranty, that's why I mistakenly assumed you could too. However, I had a look at my brother's near-identical 13" MacBook Pro today (his is only a month old) and that cover's gone, so you can no longer get to the HDD. As I understand it, the rebranding exercise resulted in some not-very important changes - addition of an SD card reader, Kensington relocation, and FireWire - and one very important one - the non-removable battery! The polycarbonate MacBook might be a copy of my older unibody MacBook, so if you can change the HDD on that I expect you change it exactly the same way I can. In light of that, I would copy everything across, and reinstall from a clean sheet, which might clear a bit of stuff you'd forgotten about out and clear a little space. Other than that, I can only suggest a careful examination of what you do intend to have on there to see if there's stuff you can do without.
Why not just get a external HDD and carry it with you? most 2.5" HDD can be run off just a USB connection with no power brick
Sure, just trying to help I'm sure you'd like this enclosure, but it's 3.5" and has an external power supply (not a brick), I just bought one myself
Look at an app called "disk inventory X" for a graphical layout of file sizes. It helps find the hog.
thanks beast i gotcha that is a sexy little case for a 3.5! downloaded inventory x, it seems to take to long to actually do anything so i deleted it lol i called up apple and there is a store about 20 mins from my home that can do all the upgrading i want done £75 for the hard drive and then £60 for the fitting :O
considering the HDD they will fit will cost no more than £55, your getting shafted!!! Bend over here comes steve jobs!
first of all, try to find out what's taking up your space I've read you're using Mac... i use 'OmniDiskSweeper'... It will search your entire HD and rank all folders according to size content... you'll immediately find the culprit oh and plz... buy a normal HD... i own a mac myself, but the extra stuff is a real rip-off That external HD's price is just too much... 135 pounds lal... does it come with an additional *******? xD
no guys, its £75 for the 500 sata 2 notebook hdd, and then £60 for the fitting of it... Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B - Hard drive - 500 GB - internal - 2.5" - SATA-300 - 5400 rpm - buffer: 8 MB Cache. where can i buy this to save me a few bob? (looks like £75 isnt so bad since its £86 on scan...) or anyone recommend something else thats as good or better that will fit in my mac book pro (08 macbook pro)? cheers
Well, having recently (as in - on Monday) bought a new 13" Macbook Pro, i can assure you that it IS within your rights to exchange HDD and RAM in the MBP. Disconnecting the battery is a bit of a grey area, although it is possible. There's even instructions on how to do it in the little 30 page manual that came with the MBP
really, hmm will check my manual when i get back then. still its hard to do on a MBP (08) not the latest ones which are very straight forward
