Last night performed major surgery on my daughters iBook. From the way the computer was acting, it seems I correctly assumed that the drive was hosed. So I pulled apart an old Wallstreet that I have (I use it to run the webcam on this site) and lifted a 20 gig 2.5 inch drive from it to put in the iBook. Took me all of 3 minutes to pull the drive and put an old 4 gig drive back in. Now the iBook took me 3 hours to pull apart, remove the drive, replace it and put it back together. The iBook appears to be working (but it does make a funny little beep from time to time and I have about 5 extra screws). Man what a frustrating piece of shit to work on. I remember when Apple products were easy to work on and that was one of the big reasons for owning one (at least for me). Now they make these damn things so it’s really, really difficult to upgrade a drive or CD burner. They don’t want you to upgrade them, they want you to buy a new one. Can’t blame them, but what a pain in the ass.