Daily Archives: 30/11/2005

ibook update: the hard disk lives!

Today I managed to take apart the iBook and remove the internal hard disk. These things are certainly built to tight specifications, and are somewhat tedious to disassemble. But I’ve done it before, and did it again this last time. After installing the hard drive in an external firewire enclosure, I hooked it up to

ibook update: welcome imac

The one perk of where I work is that we’re in the midst of a computer replacement cycle. This means that a lot of older computers are being marked as no longer needed and are being recycled. Fortunately, there are a few older Macs in this mix, and they are fair game. As such, I