I'm not sold on Macs quite yet (My Vista-equipped Inspiron e1505 is serving me well...then again I've been learning about the PC for about eleven years now and know how to fix any problems that arise). But the iMac looks freakin' awesome. And I might just have enough money to pony up for the highest-end configuration (though I'll have to pass on the mini-keyboard).
Except the RAM and HDD options are WAY overpriced. $700 to upgrade up to 4GB of memory is...um...3.5x the cost of buying the RAM elsewhere and installing yourself. So I'll get the base 1GB and buy the 4GB myself and install myself (I've upgraded every component of a PC but the processor, the mobo and the PSU so I'm okay with installing RAM).
My question is whether I can install my own hard drive and reinstall OS X onto it after I get the Mac. My point being that you can get a perfectly good Hitachi 1TB hard drive for $380 and the Apple upgrade from a 250GB HDD (which admittedly only costs $50-$70) is $550!
So how would I go about taking out the old HDD, putting in the new one and then installing OS X on it? Or do I hafta stick with whatever internal HDD comes with the Mac, which means paying a fortune if I want to get 1TB?
Thanks all!
Except the RAM and HDD options are WAY overpriced. $700 to upgrade up to 4GB of memory is...um...3.5x the cost of buying the RAM elsewhere and installing yourself. So I'll get the base 1GB and buy the 4GB myself and install myself (I've upgraded every component of a PC but the processor, the mobo and the PSU so I'm okay with installing RAM).
My question is whether I can install my own hard drive and reinstall OS X onto it after I get the Mac. My point being that you can get a perfectly good Hitachi 1TB hard drive for $380 and the Apple upgrade from a 250GB HDD (which admittedly only costs $50-$70) is $550!
So how would I go about taking out the old HDD, putting in the new one and then installing OS X on it? Or do I hafta stick with whatever internal HDD comes with the Mac, which means paying a fortune if I want to get 1TB?
Thanks all!