Need help picking the correct hard drive upgrade for my MBP

I need help picking the correct/best hard drive upgrade for my MBP. It is the 15" 2GHz Core Duo. Came with a spacious 90GB drive.
Suggestions and recommendations very appreciated.

It will take almost any 2.5 inch sata drive.
Take a look at www.newegg.com and www.macsales.com to see what's out there and how much it costs.
Toshiba have a 320gb 2,.5 inch drive in the works, but it's not quite out yet and will be expensive.
I'll start you off..
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=380&name=Laptop-Hard-Dr ives

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Hello,
I need to replace my power supply on my HP Pavilion a1000. It currently has the original (A Bestec Model: ATX-300-12Z CDR. The HP P/N is 5188-2625.
I found one on ebay that has the same numbers but instead of CDR, it says DDR. I don't really know what that means. The listing is below. Will this work? If not, could you give me a link that would work?
Thanks ahead of time for your help!!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Not-Noisy-Replacement-PC-Power-Supply-fo-Bestec-ATX-300-12Z-DDR-HP-P-N-5188-...
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INSTALLING A NEW HDD IN A MBP
1. Make certain that you have backed up all of your important data.
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Hi, Denny.
...and when I took it apart and proceeded to
load in the new hard drive I noticed that the new one
did not have connector pins to hook up to the flex
cable on the hard drive.
So you removed the old drive, you detached the short flex cable from it, and now you find nothing on the new drive to connect the cable to? Am I understanding correctly?
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storage devices to work, they probably should be formatted in a
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If the WD unit is not seen by Windows computers on your network,
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is OK unless you need a Windows computer to access the same.
The Macintosh can see and use a standard Windows disc format;
so the external drive may need to be reformatted away from HFS+
if that is really what is going on (and archive any data on the suspect
drive elsewhere, since it will be lost to reformatting overwrites)
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And Macs set up to run Windows may also see the non-Mac format;
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