@Adam it was the first thing I did once installation was over and I am liking it though only time will tell if it fundamentally changes my workflow. Also the HDD inside is a regular SATA disk and I just bought a 1TB one off the shelf in town and screwed it in. No issues. iFixit was the guide used. Very through. 

Had wanted to go the SSD way but price and the risk of catastrophic data loss kept me away. The old platter disk had been limping for 7 months and I still think I can get some of the data back. 

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Adam Nelson <adam@varud.com> wrote:

@mark Glad it worked - OS X really is awesome (sometimes :-))

I would advise you just jump right into Mavericks if your machine is sufficient.  It's a free upgrade and it helps with battery life and is pretty awesome in general:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/

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On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry was under the influence the whole day yesterday, now that am back to life, just seen that it was resolved - Internet recovery of OSX is one of the best things since sliced bread, that's why Apple is killing the CD/DVD ROM on newer MacBooks. But keeping the ISO's is still a very good idea. Once installed, go to you Apps folder and you will find the ISO right there and back it up somewhere else.

./Ok3ch

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On Jan 4, 2014, at 20:12, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

If you don't manage to get these from Okechukwu (hope he's in Westlands area), then perhaps you ping me on Monday, but you must find a way to Wilson Airport. That is, if you don't find them elsewhere. Not Mavericks though... Mountain Lion...

BTW, does this mean you cannot clone an OS X HDD the way we do for Windows/Unix...??

On 4 January 2014 10:53, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone have the above in town or westlands area? Replacing my HDD and have no OS.

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