There is actually quite an easy guide on how to upgrade the hard drive of a macbook pro (which obviously voids warranty). So if you have 3 hours to kill, buy a new 500 GB hard drive and play around with your macbook pro. (Although the hardest part was finding a fitting T-6 Torx screwdriver - i didn't even knew something like that existed.)




I'm pretty amazed that time machine worked perfectly (after a few back/forth in the recovery dialog because it doesn't recognize partitions you create while the dialog is already open.. ie. create your partitions and AFTERWARDS start the recovery dialog ). It just took about 1.5 hours to restore the 90 GB backup, and I could continue working just as i left off on my old HD (Just faster and without those annoying "Your startup disk is almost full" warnings).