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May 18, 2006

MacBook HDD Acess Door (Pictures)

I got the opportunity today to pick up three new Black MacBooks. Here's some photos, specifically of the bottom battery access panel where the RAM and HD access are located.

The metal "L" shaped cover has TINY safety screws that don't come loose so they can't be lost. The hardest part is getting a very small screwsdriver at the correct angle to open the access panel.

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Macworld has posted a video of the HDD and RAM access panels.

Contributed by: Chuck Freedman

Posted by chuckf at May 18, 2006 11:19 AM
Category: MacBook

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UPDATE: I spent nearly THREE hours loading BootCamp and WinXP Pro onto the MacBook, and after running all the WinUpdates, the default max screen res was 1024x768. I decided to install the MB drivers included as part of the BootCamp install. After they installed, adn I was prompted to reboot, the Windows partition would NOT boot any longer. The best I could do was get to a DOS screen with the choice to startup normally, or in Safe Mode - neither worked. The machine would blue-screen, and reboot back to the same startup. I fixed it by using the BootCamp utility to remove the partition. This time, I'm trying Parallels!

Posted by: chuck3000 [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 18, 2006 4:02 PM

Those tiny "screws that won't come loose" are called "captive screws."

Posted by: cyberdog [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 19, 2006 1:08 AM

UPDATE(2) - After two days with three Black MacBooks, I'm RETURNING TWO OF THEM as, what I would term "Defective."

They randomly reboot themselves; the screen has a blue glowing TINT, which at first I thought had something to do with the new glossy screen, but the third machine doesn't have that issue; the iSight camera suddenly goes BLACK when in PhotoBooth; and these two machines continuously goes into "Spinny ball of death" mode for about 3 seconds, every so often.

We'll see how things behave after an exchange.

Posted by: chuck3000 [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 20, 2006 2:02 AM

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