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Someone tell me
not
to use my 'intuitive' approach to hardware upgrades on Mac laptops, kay? So, I pull the old drive from the MacBook (very easy) but then discover I have no Torx wrenches the right size to remove the shroud from the drive and put it on the new one. So I go to three different places before I find some Torx wrenches. Then I get home and put the new drive in. But I'd forgotten how the old one came out so I put the new one in upside down. I don't realize anything's wrong until I see the MacBook won't recognize the new drive. So at that point I google and discover I've put it in upside down. So I try to put it in the other way and it won't go in that way either. So I figure I bought the wrong type of drive. Then I try to put the old one back in and it won't go in either. So I think, "Great, I broke my MacBook."
Turns out there are rubber strips on either side of the drive to insulate it from vibration and shock. And when I put the drive in upside down, it pulled one of the rubber strips out, which then got stuck in the back of the drive bay, covering the connections. Some time with a bright utility light and chopsticks and I have the rubber strip pulled out. Eventually I manage to get the new drive in with the rubber strip in the correct place.
Then I installed Leopard, which went without a hitch.
What's the moral of the story? That I'm not as smart as I think? That I should research all laptop hardware upgrades before I do them? Something like that....
but think Tommyrot, you got this cool story of how you triumphed! How's the Leopard look?
I just keep thinking, "beware of the leopard"
Not everyone likes Leopard. [link]
OTOH, some people are running it on PCs. [link]
The Dock now expresses itself as a silly reflective shelf. My objection to this is not merely the business of "wasting cycles drawing trendy 3D junk." In order to accommodate the reflection, the Dock icons have to sit considerably higher than before, robbing the user of valuable screen real estate.
Unless you're weird like me and put the dock on the side.
So far I'm liking Leopard, but I've only used it a few minutes and haven't installed any apps yet.
I am so over leopard already, and I haven't even used it, just lost my husband for various hours this weekend while he installed it.
When we were having the "should we buy this" debate, he said, "It has 300 new features!" I said, "Name one." Ten minutes later he came up with, "It has a Danish language spelling dictionary!" I said, "Name one that is actually useful to us."
We bought it anyway, of course. Oh well, some people's husbands drink.
Oh well, some people's husbands drink.
As a Madden Playstation widow, I'm right there with you.
put the dock on the side to Tommy. You are not alone.
This may be impossible, but-
I apparently have 3 computers authorized to play my itunes music. One of them is a work computer at a former job, and the other is deader than a doornail at my house. Is there any way to rid myself of this?
