| Aug. 9th, 2008 @ 12:09 pm MacBook Pro Upgrade |
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Current Music: Imogen Heap - Daylight Robbery
I just upgraded my hard drive and my OS on my MacBook Pro last night. Finally got all my settings, files and applications moved over and it's working great.
Installed a Seagate Momentus 7200.3 320GB hard drive - it's super fast!
Installed Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard
Used a Thermaltake BlacX Drive dock to transfer files from my old hard drive to my new one after installing the OS on the new drive. Use Migration Assistant to move everything over. It was easy and the only thing I really had to update / fix was Norton AntiVirus, and Norton Live Update Client to 4.0.4, I was getting errors when I tried to update my virus definitions. Click my link if you are also having problems with Leopard and Norton Antivirus giving you Microdef errors.
After it was all said and done I had to seeif my new drive is really worth it. I found this Mac benchmark application called BenchX that I ran on my previous drive and then I compared it to my current drive. You can see the comparison for yourself here.
XBench is a how brew project so I decided to donate to his efforts, and it's the first time I've donated to Freeware. I feel good about it because this guy has worked hard to provide the community with a great tool and is even hosting these results on his site.
Anyways, the new drive is FAST! I recommend it to anyone who's looking to upgrade their laptop hard drive with a larger faster one. My MacBook Pro is certainly snappier now, and I actually have storage space now to put virutal machines on here. If you want to see my system comparison click here
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