Where's the user-swappable hard drive?

OK, so the new MacBook Pros are out, and there's a lot to like. But lost in all the enthusiasm over the backlit LED display and the new graphics cards is the fact that there still doesn't seem to be any easy access to the hard drive bay. That's a big reason why I'm holding onto my plain ol' MacBook (Amateur? Anti-pro?), because it is beyond trivial (and won't void the warranty) to add a higher-capacity SATA drive when the need arises. I'm sure there would be some tricky engineering involved to put the MacBook Pro's hard disk in a place where it would be user-accessible, but I can't really even consider one without it, despite the need for at least marginally faster graphics performance out of my mobile machine.

Maybe next time... dammit.

Posted at 10:50AM Jun 08, 2007 by Kevin Schmitt in Mac and Apple  |  Comments[0]