Simple question - Changing harddrives

[JHelgie]

I am pretty sure the laptop I am going to get for college will be a t42. When the warranty runs out and the drive eventually bites the dust, what options will I have? I was looking at the IBM website, and it's $400(!!!) for an 80gig drive. Will I have to get a drive from them, or could I just order one off newegg? I assume if I could, the APS thing wouldn't work?(I was looking at some fujitsu drives that say they have "Head Load / Unload mechanism with Inertia Latch technology", would that work with the APS thing?)

[eriqesque]

You will be able to use any standard notebook HD out there.
That same 80GB HD at zipzoomfly is only like $165 w/Full 3yr warranty.

I would assume the APS will work with any notebook HD
as it is software driven not buil in to the hardware of the drive.

[Leon]

but, where is the motion sensor???

[benz]

The accelerometer is actually mounted to the system board, I believe...so there is no way to remove it with the hard drive (and no need to worry about what HD to put in...it will always be protected by APS!)