Building Memories

Last night I installed a new hard drive in Bee's iBook. Let's just say that it's not for the faint of heart. It took me 2.5 hours to open up the laptop, replace the hard drive, and button everything back up again.

I found there were two main difficulties: 1) it's hard to figure out how to actually take it apart, and 2) it's tough to remember how everything was arranged after you've taken it apart. We're talking about remembering where 40+ screws go, many of them different sizes. Not a pretty picture.

On the plus side, everything worked once I put it back together. And I was smart enough to buy a larger capacity, faster hard drive, so the whole exercise felt more worthwhile. I'm hoping that this drive will be better able to handle the professional-level graphics and multimedia work that Bee does on her laptop. I don't want to have to replace it again in another year or two!