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hard drive swap from 2.2ghz santa rosa to 2.5 penryn, no os x install necessary - mattkime - 12-30-2008

it feels good!


Re: hard drive swap from 2.2ghz santa rosa to 2.5 penryn, no os x install necessary - GGD - 12-30-2008

So, what OS version were you running? Was it 10.5.6?


Re: hard drive swap from 2.2ghz santa rosa to 2.5 penryn, no os x install necessary - mattkime - 12-30-2008

yup!


Re: hard drive swap from 2.2ghz santa rosa to 2.5 penryn, no os x install necessary - hal - 12-30-2008

is your sound working? that seems to be the biggest problem I see when I do this kinda thing...


Re: hard drive swap from 2.2ghz santa rosa to 2.5 penryn, no os x install necessary - mattkime - 12-30-2008

perfectly fine!


Re: hard drive swap from 2.2ghz santa rosa to 2.5 penryn, no os x install necessary - GGD - 12-30-2008

You will probably need to re-authorize your iTunes, and probably needed to de-authorize them while that drive was still in the old computer.


Re: hard drive swap from 2.2ghz santa rosa to 2.5 penryn, no os x install necessary - mattkime - 12-30-2008

hm....nope! Smile

GGD wrote:
You will probably need to re-authorize your iTunes, and probably needed to de-authorize them while that drive was still in the old computer.



Re: hard drive swap from 2.2ghz santa rosa to 2.5 penryn, no os x install necessary - Black Landlord - 12-31-2008

You will probably need to pry out your entire row of function keys and replace them in reverse order.


Re: hard drive swap from 2.2ghz santa rosa to 2.5 penryn, no os x install necessary - mattkime - 12-31-2008

hah, didn't notice that....but they all work!

Black Landlord wrote:
You will probably need to pry out your entire row of function keys and replace them in reverse order.