Comments on: New Macbook hard drive bliss

By: John Peters

John Peters — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:38:55 +0000

Wes;

Take a look at this site concerning an enclosure for your old hard drive: http://tinyurl.com/47fehf I hope this helps.

By: Wesley Fryer

Wesley Fryer — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:36:05 +0000

Yes, I am in the midst of that “pain” now reinstalling apps– It’s a good process tho, since there were a fair number of programs I had installed that I don’t really use, so I should end up with a slimmer and hopefully faster system… I think I would enjoy a virtual machine I could sandbox test stuff in, and then blow away from time to time… As it is now, I install apps on my main system and then I end up with extra preference files and other settings which never get uninstalled, if I stop using the app or even if I delete the app itself.

Thanks for the recommendation of OWC, Joe, I will check it out.

I certainly am looking forward to continued development of solid state / flash based media drives. I am amazed by the Macbook Air. It seems a little underpowered storage-wise and the solid state drive is definitely to expensive now, but in a few years….

By: J.D. Williams

J.D. Williams — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:13:22 +0000

I had a high school computer teacher tell me (in the late 1990’s) that computers would never have more than a 1GB hard drive because it would take the computer to long to find the information on it. I figure that one statement is what kept me from creating YouTube because I didn’t think it’d ever be feasible… haha

I’m in the process of changing computers. I wish I had backed up more, but I transfered quite a bit over my network and on a few usb drives. The pain will just be reinstalling all of the programs I use.

By: Paul R. Wood

Paul R. Wood — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:01:35 +0000

Thanks for the memories. Made me think of when I really splurged many years ago and actually had a pc with 1 mg of ram, 40 mg hard drive and my brother in law said “now you have all the memory you will ever need.” How long before a laptop has a TB in it? I don’t think it is far away at all.

By: Joe Brennan

Joe Brennan — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:46:38 +0000

Wes, I like Out of this World Computing, http://www.macsales.com. You definitely want to put that old HD back into service. There are helpful how-to’s in their support section, though slipping that old 2.5″ into a case is a snap and few tiny screws. It should then fit nicely into one of the pockets in your laptop case giving you 370G’s total wherever you go. Indispensable! And I think those kids will be even more amazed that our HD’s had power draining moving parts. I can only imagine what a difference the next few generations of flash hard drives will make on a couple of different fronts.