[OT] Laptop Harddrives

[Luke-Jr]

They're pretty much standardized, but be careful with Compaq/HP stuff... 
Apparently (or so I hear), they've done some pretty evil and/or stupid stuff 
before... This is hearsay, but apparently Compaq designed a (desktop) system 
in such a way that using anything but their official replacement power supply 
in it would fry its motherboard and the power supply-- and if you used the 
power supply for that model in another computer, the same. So, as a result, 
using either that particular power supply or that particular motherboard with 
another motherboard/p.s. would result in fried equipment. All the connectors 
were standard.