Excellent iBook HD Replacement Instructions

I've used these instructions to pull my DVD drive apart and get it replaced--took 2-3 hours, total, and only because my boyfriend was brilliant and said, "yeah, I plugged the drive back in." Still lost a couple screws in the process, even with the chart drawn out.

Nicely documented tear down :) How the heck did that wire get so pinched?? I have to wonder though - I have a first gen 12" iBook and recently upgraded the HD while using the PBFIXIT instructions and it took me less than an hour. Are you guys watching TV while you're doing the swap?

Thank's for the link! I'm Belgian, and it is "uk" in the url because the version without "uk" is in my mother tong, so in French!

Ok, he's not British, but Belgian. I had assumed he was British because the site URL has "UK" in there. No offense intended.

And I think you'll find that this guy isn't British, but Belgian. So that would be " 'arry le ceramiste" or similar.....

Andre Sterpin, from Belgium, who owns the website you just linked, is someone very active in the french Mac community. Lots of his new tutorials are linked in french Mac news sites and he is present almost every year at Apple Expo in Paris where he can fix number of hardware problemes and make some new articles. At last Apple Expo, he committed this one on an PowerBook of another french Mac news team guy. How to clean air ventilation inside a PowerBook at the Apple Expo bar. http://www.sterpin.net/RadiateurAlu12Pouces.htm (only in french sorry)

I used pbfixit's guide when I installed an 80 GB drive in my G3 dual-USB ibook (replacing the stock 20 GB drive). With the 30- or 40-something screws (of different sizes and types), the experience was quite harrowing. I used double-sided tape to tape the screws to the guide printout as I went along, making it a little easier when I had to put everything back together. Still, it was the worst 3 hours of my life, and I never ever want to do that again. I was just relieved that I didn't have any leftover hardware when I was done. It's great that I (and my ibook) survived the experience, but next time I need to open up one of those white ibooks, I'm hiring a tech.

[applauds] Love to hear/see a jerk be put in his place. I only wish I had the liberty in my job to tell people what I really think of their rude electronic rampages which really just end of making them look and sound stupid .

Matt, did you bother to read the article? Or did you skip past the part where I talked about taking apart the white dual-USB iBook having jsut been released, and therefore, it was my first experience with the model. "Around this time, Apple shipped the first of the white dual-USB iBooks. I'd taken apart pretty much every thing else Apple had shipped for the last five years without many problems, so I readily agreed to help an acquaintance upgrade the 10GB HD in his iBook to a 20GB HD." PBFixit.com's take-apart didn't exist when I was doing this upgrade, in late 2001. I guess it's easier to send rude and snarky comments instead of actually comprehending the article. I don't want to sound like an ass or anything...just saying...

"Not to sound like an ass, or anything...just say'in." Too late!