Upgrading the Hard Drive in my MacBook Pro and installing Leopard
As a musician and multimedia creation expert, I’ve run into trouble attempting to maximize performance and storage space. Specifically, my 17″ MacBook Pro had 90 GB hard drive at 7200 rpm. It was speedy for sure…..but it was so loaded with apps that I had little to no room for data. Being that I have almost three terabytes of external storage, somethings were just not as efficient as I would have liked (namely Native Instruments sample libraries for Komplete 4 had to be housed externally). After much frustration and a bit of research, I recently pulled the trigger on a 200GB Seagate drive that runs at 7200 rpm. After backing up things the old fashion way (I was running 10.4.11 on the old drive), I’ve replaced the drive and installed Leopard. Stay tuned for how well the migration goes….Entourage 2004 is my primary concern (upgrading to Entourage 2008), but I have a LOAD of apps to install including NI Komplete, Ableton Live 6, Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia Studio 8, MS Office 2008 and then some.