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Mar. 29th, 2009 09:30 pmToday installed a 320 GB HD on Brie, the creamy white MacBook that's been my primary all-purpose computing device for going-on two years ago. (I bought Brie when I decided that I really was going to go indie, though it'd be nearly a year before I got my act together enough to found Appleseed.) Including shipping and the cost of a new Torx screwdriver, the drive cost less than $100. Thank you, Newegg.com.
This is nice, coz I plan on creating at least a couple more Lenny (Debian 5) and Windows VMs in the near future, for both business and pleasure, and Brie's stock 80 GB disk just didn't have the room for them. Since being shown the light around the end of 2007, I have really grown to appreciate the work-pattern of starting a new project by bamfing up a new VM instance, especially when said project is ultimately going to be a deliverable for a client. So much cleaner than starting out on the shall-we-say baggage-laden environment that is my Mac.
The installation was relatively painless, if slow, since there was so much to back up and then restore again. Glad I found this Gizmodo article by Wilson Rothman first, about a stupid little dance you (sometimes?) need to do before the Leopard install DVD will let you restore from a Time Machine disk to a brand-new HD.
This is nice, coz I plan on creating at least a couple more Lenny (Debian 5) and Windows VMs in the near future, for both business and pleasure, and Brie's stock 80 GB disk just didn't have the room for them. Since being shown the light around the end of 2007, I have really grown to appreciate the work-pattern of starting a new project by bamfing up a new VM instance, especially when said project is ultimately going to be a deliverable for a client. So much cleaner than starting out on the shall-we-say baggage-laden environment that is my Mac.
The installation was relatively painless, if slow, since there was so much to back up and then restore again. Glad I found this Gizmodo article by Wilson Rothman first, about a stupid little dance you (sometimes?) need to do before the Leopard install DVD will let you restore from a Time Machine disk to a brand-new HD.