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On Aug 14, 2006, at 8:50 AM, Jonathan King wrote:
On 8/13/06, Brent Deterding <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
I run my Powerbook 15" alum with the lid closed hooked up to an
external monitor. Previously I had it flat on my desk. I believe this
caused excessive heat, which cause the HDD (Seagate Momentus 5400rpm)
to die recently. The laptop is just over a year old.
Were you still under Applecare? They could or should check the heating
issue as well, especially if that's what you think caused the problem.
On the other hand:
Silly me didn't get AppleCare because I have a Windows box that works
just as well. It worked I suppose and the trip to get the HDD was no
less frustrating that to the Apple store for warranty. As long as I
have no more failures ...
I replaced the HDD with a Seagate Momentus 7200rpm (wow it flies) and
bought a Targus Coolpad to elevate the laptop
It sounds like you have just joined the "take apart your Mac notebook
and replace the obnoxiously difficult to access hard drive" club.
Welcome! Has Nathan taught you the secret handshake? I've done this
six times (on three different notebooks) myself. It's going to be a
rare club because, in a fit of engineering, they put the drives in the
MacBooks in a much more sensible place, so that won't count.
MAN that thing was ridiculous! I had to get out a sheet of paper and
label all the screw - let alone that they are real really small. I
loved that one screwdriver worked for every screw - except two ...
that required a T6 Torx head (good luck finding that). I was lucky
that one of my flatheads fit in the torx head just right. The only
thing that could frustrate me more than the click-spin-click-spin-
click-spin of that HDD was the 97 screws I had to remove to get to it
- complete with the fun "slide a dental hook behind this latch while
simultaneously applying upward pressure on 3 other points of the case/
keyboard."
Lid still closed and
I'm keeping an eye on the temperatures. They seem OK despite the fact
that PowerBooks run hot.
Does anyone else have temps to compare against?
Battery 91.4F/33.0C
PS Bot 125.6F/51.8C
Proc Bot 130.1F/54.5C
Proc/Cont Bot 136.4F/57.8C
Trackpad 106.7F/41.5C
The Powerbook runs hot, but there's no way the trackpad should be 106,
and I'd be a bit suprirsed if the thing was engineered to be 136 at
the processor.
Perhaps it wasn't heat and laptop HDD suck - but this Seagate has a 5
yr. warranty and I've had excellent history with Seagate which makes
me wonder. Interesting point - I made it a point that anything I
could do with a Mac I could do with a PC and vice-versa. I store all
my data on my central Linux server (save IMAP email). This meant that
when the HDD died I didn't miss a beat - iTunes, printing, email,
word/powerpoint docs, etc. - all worked and nothing slowed me down. I
consider this to be pretty cool and the only real issue it raises is
that I save docs in multiple formats (Pages and Word - which really
is no big thing at all to me).
That's a very reasonable and geek-worthy setup. I saw somewhere some
Applescript hackery that would allow you to more easily save Pages as
both formats, or would convert a hard drive's worth of Word to Pages,
and stuff like that. Pages 2.0 still isn't my cup of tea (except for
making scientific posters; it is absolutely the best tool EVAR for
that), but the improvement from 1.0 was gratifying.
On a barely related note, I've been using VBacs (emacs keystroke
editing for Word) for a month now, and I can highly recommend it.
jking
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