{"id":78,"date":"2003-09-26T15:01:43","date_gmt":"2003-09-26T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2003-09-26T15:01:43","modified_gmt":"2003-09-26T20:01:43","slug":"7200rpm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"7200rpm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transintl.com\/store\/category.cfm?Category=2300&#038;RequestTimeOut=500\">these<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transintl.com\">Transintl.com<\/a> yesterday.  (In case you don&#8217;t want to follow the links it&#8217;s a 7200rpm notebook drive.  Got it this morning, created a copy of my drive using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombich.com\/software\/ccc.html\">Carbon Copy Cloner<\/a> (an <strong>AWESOME<\/strong> program) and proceeded to rip apart my poor unsuspecting Powerbook 12.<\/p>\n<p>The install went fairly smoothly (Apple could make these things a bit easier to work on) except for a bit of a sticking point removing the top of the latop.  I followed the instructions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xlr8yourmac.com\/systems\/powerbookG4_12in_HD_upgrade\/PowebookG4_12in_HD_upgrade.htm\">here<\/a> and would only suggest that when all the screws are out that you lift the top off the case from the <i><b>front<\/b><\/i>, not the back (thankfully aluminum is pretty forgiving).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, my laptop feels a <strong>TON<\/strong> faster!  It&#8217;s also close to 40% faster according to XBench. I can run our server, Photoshop, iTunes, Mail, emacs and still switch between them (which causes paging, &#8217;cause I don&#8217;t have enough ram&#8230; waiting for the 1gb dimms to get cheaper first) without the machine choking!<\/p>\n<p>I would recommend this mod to anyone who wants to significantly improve the performance of their laptop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered one of these from Transintl.com yesterday. (In case you don&#8217;t want to follow the links it&#8217;s a 7200rpm notebook drive. Got it this morning, created a copy of my drive using Carbon Copy Cloner (an AWESOME program) and proceeded to rip apart my poor unsuspecting Powerbook 12. The install went fairly smoothly (Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review-lite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}