NoteBook

my mac has been freezing on me constantly. It's got to the point where sometimes when I flip the screen down to put it to sleep, it freezes so that when I put my notebook into my laptop case, it will keep on heating up but won't turn on the fans. ...

external DVD-rewriters are cheap enough. Unless you need to import your CDs in the garden, that'd even work then. but I'm not talking about a student's notebook, rather a professional's. :)

If you have a second Mac with an optical drive (desktop or laptop), you won't need one on the laptop, I agree. BUT: If, for example you're a student who wants a cheap notebook, you would need one, otherwise you couldn't import and music Cds, couldn't install any software, OR back up using CDs... And if you're taking it on vacation with you, it might be practical to burn your...

Probably in order to be able to sell us one for 1099$. ;) ... Seriously, though: A lot of people don't really need to burn DVDs. Heck: I'd even leave out the optical drive altogether for an even thinner and - more importantly - lighter notebook. (A 12" widescreen model without optical drive sounds sweet to me.)

I use an adaptor to run a full size 7200 rpm IDE hard drive in my 1.25 ghz Mini. It converts the notebook plug to a regular size IDE plug. I have a spare channel on the IDE cable of course which I usually use for a full size DVD burner. ...

This notebook powers up and runs but crashes intermittently. Sometimes it will run for an hour, and sometimes it will run for only 15 minutes before crashing. ...

I've no experience with these specific things, but your MacBook Pro running Windows XP with the BootCamp drivers installed is basically a PC notebook running Windows XP. ...

because if you're a mobile computer user, you'll simply take your notebook with you. ...

yes... but my mac is a notebook (macbook) and i take it with me at school: the printer must be connected to a computer that is always turn on, and always in the "same place", in order that everybody in the house (not only me) and in every moment can print... :(

the new drive _is_ a notebook S-ATA drive, right?