New Hard Drive and RAM

Hi all,
This isn't a question, just thought some of you may be interested.
After reaching a stage of rapidly diminishing hard drive space (mainly due to my new hobby of movie making)I was faced with a choice of expanding this Mac or buying a new one. After doing the sums, decided to bite the bullet and expand this one. I've added RAM in the past, but the thought of changing my hard drive was a bit daunting. Nevertheless, after downloading the instructions and reading this discussion group, I figured I could do it.
I ordered a Seagate 320GB hard drive and another GB of RAM (Crucial), cost was less than AU$200, bought a new, magnetised screwdriver set and off I went.
It was a breeze, in fact getting the back back on the iMac took me longer than actually installing the hard drive and RAM! The magnetised screwdriver was a godsend - don't attempt the job without one.
I had followed Miriam's advice (thankyou) and used Super Duper to back up my original hard drive on my external drive and this is the only time I ran into problems. The first restore was a disaster and I ended up learning far more about prebindings than I really wanted, or needed, to know. Thanks to the folks over at the Tiger Discussion group, I eventually succeeded in restoring correctly. Lesson learnt - read the manual! <edited by host>
I'm planning on getting an external case for my old hard drive and keeping it as a 'just in case', the 2 x 256 sticks of RAM will probably be sold on ebay.
So, if you are still wondering how hard the job is, take it from me (who will never see her 60th birthday again), by following the instructions it is a piece of cake. I now hope to get another 3 years out of this computer and when it finally dies, I will buy another one as I have been for almost 20 years, my first Mac was a Plus.
Cheers
NikkiG

Up till the iSight, Apple made computers which were easily serviceable by their owner...
?? What about the 128k, 512k, 512ke, plus, se (all flavors), iMac G3, iMac G4, eMac, Mac mini, laptops, iPod, Newton, etc.?
Really the only Apple devices that Apple expects you to completely disassemble and replace internal parts are the devices targeted for professionals (Mac Pro, Power Mac, etc.).

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