MacBook Surgery Part 2
After waiting a week I finally recieved a hard drive from Halifax-based GreenLyph, a drive which turned out to be bigger than the one I ordered.
I'm guessing that was thier way of making up for the delays with my order and if it was, I'm grateful - it went along way to easing my frustration.
Installing the drive turned out be easier than putting in the ram, which was a pretty simple process but required a frightening amount of pressure to slot the memory chips in properly.
Both upgrades were made easier thanks to extremely helpful how-to-guides on the web.
Once I had the drive in, I rebooted the machine using the OS X Leopard DVD and formatted the Fujitisu drive to Mac OS X journaled file system. After another reboot I was able to select a restore from backup option, which restored everything from the old 60 gig hard drive on to the new computer.
Following the hard drive upgrade, I've found my machine quite a bit more responsive. I'm not sure if that's because the new drive is a 5400 rpm model (versus 4200 rpm model) or if its becaue when Mac OS X's Time Machine backup application restored the computer it didn't both copying over log files and caches, thus giving the system a bit of a, for lack of a better phrase, digital enema.
Either way, I'm happy with the results of the MacBook tune-up and I feel a whole lot better about Time Machine, which can not only restore individual files but entire systems quickly and reliably.
