Hard drive model

My first week 27 blackbook randomly shutdown. Apple changed another week 27 one for me.
An interesting thing I noticed is that the hard drive models of the two are different. The first one has a Seagate and the second has a Toshiba.
I prefer Seagate, though.....

Apple, like most manufacturers gets the drives in bulk and uses whoever provides them the best price at the time of purchase.
Interestingly, the last three Macs I have had - and eMac in early 2004, G5 iMac in late 2004, and now the BlackBook - have all had Seagate drives in them.
No problems with any of them.

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