Lab Rats! Episode 34: Instant Notebook Upgrades –

SERIES: Lab Rats

EPISODE #: 34

RELEASE DATE: July 17, 2006

TITLE: Instant Notebook Upgrades

RUN TIME: 16:21:06

HOSTS: Andy Walker and Sean Carruthers

DIRECTOR: Matt Harris

EDITOR: Sean Carruthers

SOURCE: www.labrats.tv/episodes/ep34.html

NOTES:

Tools Required For Upgrading Your Notebooks:

Upgrading Your Apple MacBook Laptop Hard Drive:

Take a penny to open up the battery compartment.
Remove the battery.
Remove the screws from the inner-side of the laptop.
Remove the strip of metal that seperates the battery from the hard drive.
Pull on the two levers to release the memory.
Remove the stock memory to upgrade it with faster better memory. [Kingston Memory was used in this demostration]
To upgrade your hard drive, pull the white tab next to where the battery was, which pulls out the hard drive.
Slide the new drive right back in.
Replace the metal strip and screws.
Place the battery into it's propor slot and place the cover back on the laptop.
Your done, in under 8 minutes.

Upgrading Your Lenovo IBM Thinkpad Laptop Hard Drive:

Unscrew the door on the back of the laptop, which will reveil the memory.
Push back on the two levers to pop the memory out
Place the memory in at an angle and press down.
Unscrew the second door on the back which releases the hard drive which gets pulled out of the side.
Slide the new drive in and your done, in under 5 minutes.

**12 Minutes Total Upgrade Your PC And Your Mac Notebooks!**

- We recommend you visit Crucial or Kingston to purchase your memory.

- You can check what RAM your motherboard takes using Crucial's Memory Advisor.

- For more information on installing memory visit, How To Add Ram FAQ at Cyberwalker.

- Remember that the new drive will be blank - you will need to reinstall your OS and software.

- If you have an enclosure you can image your old drive to the new drive before you swap drives.

- At the very least be sure to backup your important documents prior to swaping drives.

- On a perpendicular drive drive, the bits stand upright, allowing eight times the density of a standard drive.

- Andy's Where's My Jetpack? Plug - Where's My Jetpack?

- Andy's Vista Book Plug - Windows Vista Help Desk Book which will be released in conjunction with the consumer line of Windows Vista in 2007.

- Sean Carruthers Forgotten Flickr Account at - click here.