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Hands on with the Macbook/Pro’s removable hard drive

Ars gets up close and personal with the new removable hard drive and battery …



First, the battery cover is now removed with a latch instead of the old rotational lock that required a coin to turn.  Secondly, the Kensington lock port, when activated, will also lock this latch and keep anyone from stealing your battery, and more importantly your removable hard drive.

As for replacing the hard drive, the unit is extremely accessible as you can see in the following photograph:


To replace you simple pull the tab, pop out the existing hard drive and pop in a new one.

To replace the memory in the unit, you do not have to remove the hard drive or the battery (although I believe removing the battery is a good move).  Replacing the memory now requires that you remove four screws immediately above the battery.  This is much different than the often-tricky, lever and side-ways insertion method found on the current generation of MacBooks.

More importantly, these processes are identical on all models of laptop (minus the Air).

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