DVD Drive upgrade for for clamshell

if i buy a standard DVD or even a DVD-R/RW drive for a clamshell will it work or do i have to hunt for a Apple superdrive as ican grabe a cheap drive of ebay if any will work.

Not really ...once the drive is placed into the 'harness' for the clamshell then you simply put it back together the same way you got it apart. The harness has various screw holes that line up with all the standard optical drives so that's no big deal ..sometimes though, you have to be careful as not to damage the harness when you take the old optical drive out. Like I said it's not a problem ...unless you get anxious and start tearing into things then you could run into 'fitting' issues.
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/49.0.0.html
The item at the very top of this picture (from what is exposed under the keyboard) is the optical drive ...this 'holey' cheese grater type thing is part of the harness that hold the drive in place - it's this part that you'll have to be careful with...
Blackbook C2D Mac OS X (10.4.9) 120Gig, 1Gig, Superdrive.

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