A new computer supply and repair shop just opened up around the corner from my downtown Ann Arbor office that so far at least is highly recommended. Beagle Brain is located at the west end of Nickels Arcade opposite the entrance to the Maynard parking structure. I’ve been wanting to put a bigger hard drive in my macbook pro for some time but unlike the plastic macbooks, swapping the drive is a more complex procedure. The whole aluminum case has to be opened up with lots of little screws to lose and several connectors. I stopped into the shop last week to see how much they would charge to do the remove and replace procedure, and to my pleasant surprise the price was a very palatable $30. I went ahead and ordered the new hard drive from Newegg and when it arrived I cloned the current drive to an external unit with Super Duper!. I dropped off my laptop when I went into the office and picked it up at lunch time. I plugged in the external drive to clone the data back to the new larger drive and a couple of hours later I was good to go. If you need some repair work done and you’re in downtown A2 it’s definitely worth checking out Beagle Brain.
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What hard drive in just $30. I don’t believe it . How comes it possible.
The installation of the hard drive was $30. I bought a 320 GB hard drive from Newegg for $65.
It’s good that you decided to take your laptop to a service and not open it up yourself. I unscrewed mine and ended up with lots of pieces and I had no idea where to put them back. After a lot of help from the internet I managed to put it back and it still works. I have two screws left and I have no idea where they should have been. Oh well…
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The whole aluminum case has to be opened up with lots of little screws to lose and several connectors.