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Please note that the unibody late 2008 inch macbook was discontinued and replaced by the similar looking unibodymid2009 inch macbook pro. Owcs stepbystep video of how to install a hard drive in the apple macbook late 2008 unibody. This was the original unibody macbook that still has a removable battery. It has a builtin hdd which became unbelievably slow.
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