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).