Leon wrote:


"Upscale" wrote in message
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Not necessarily. He didn't say that it was a removable hard drive. It may
well have been an internal one. I'm not familiar with Dell as a user, but
I
also suspect that their drives may be equipped with a semi-proprietary OS
that recognizes only their own hardware fully. In a case like that, some
off
the shelf drive would be mostly useless. It's also possible that some OEM
drive could also void all warranty of any type.

The HD has 2 exposed external screws to remove and the drive slides right
out. A 2 minute swap out. The big advantage of the $500 extended
watrranty was the BIG additional discounts and rebated it qualified my
order for. Ultimately the extended warranty cost about $115 over no
extended warranty and I doubt you can buy any laptop 80 gig HD for that
price delivered to your door step next day.

Not meaning to be nitpicky but the Newegg price for an 80 gig Hitachi
Fedexed overnight is $103.02. Where I live UPS ground is usually overnight
from them so my price would be under $90.

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