Bill Fox’s Macs Only! has stopped doing daily news due to limited resources. Their reviews and opinions have always been a good read. In fact Bill will return to doing just that:
It will continue to persist, not as a daily news source but with occasional commentary, articles, reviews, software tests and speed tests like the article below.In a hands-on-review.
Bill provides some helpful information for anyone considering this surgery. As noted in the article, this is the largest hard drive you can fit into a MacBook Pro.
Update(1/7): At CES in Las Vegas, Samsung announced their Spinpoint M6 500GB 2.5″ laptop hd drive, expected to be available as early as March, will be the necessary 9.5mm.