Newton’s Lore

Someone on Macintouch noticed that the Apple Developer Tech Note for the 17 inch MacBook Pro mentions a 500Gb 5400RPM configuration. Interestingly, Engadget notes both 500Gb Fujitsu and Hitachi drives, but notes they’re a non-standard form factor that’s an extra 3mm higher for a total of 12.5mm. The Developer Tech Note notes that the SuperDrive is 12.7mm high, so there’s probably a whole 0.2mm to play with otherwise perhaps we need the MacBook Pro Fat? FatBook Pro? Currently the Apple Store only lets you bump the hard drive size up to 300Gb for an extra AU$110
[Edit - Ok, so Samsung have a 2.5" 500Gb 9.5mm drive due out in March (ie now). Can we stop mixing imperial and metric now please?]

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