I have a first generation MacBook Pro Core Duo which I ordered the the moment it was made available back in January 2006; i was delivered in March 2006. It comes with 100GB hard-drive, which was considered large at that time. Eighteen months, two hundreds and fourteen apps later, I found out that I need more hard drive space. (OK, it’s not about the number of the apps, but it’s because of all the multimedia projects I have been working on; and Boot Camp partition or VMware/Parallel disk image.)
Anticipating the official release of Leopard, I decided to upgrade the hard drive on this MacBook Pro. It’s not a trivial task but I’ve done a lot of it for the past 18 months or so. The hard drive is being delivered, and Apple has just completed the screen replacement on my MacBook Pro. I need to pick it up soon.
I’ll be replacing the hard drive later today, as soon as UPS delivered the hard drive. Assuming I picked up my MacBook Pro already.
I’ll post some video clips of me upgrading the hard drive. I anticipate spending 30 to 60 minutes to complete the upgrade.
I had to do the exact same thing a bout a month ago, here is a link to how I did it that may be helpful…
http://www.switchingtomac.com/wp/macbook-pro-hard-drive-upgrade/