cost of hard drive upgrade

i wish to upgrade my laptop's hd to a ssd that i found. I would do it myself but since I have an ultraportable S6F it is very complicated to do it myself. If i went to any general computer shop, how much can i expect them to charge me? will this be a preset charge or just an estimate? will the cost be higher considering it is harder to upgrade an ultraportable?
thanks

 

Well I looked up the Owners manual and it does say go to an authorized service center or retailer for upgrade. So you are right but should not go just anywhere. And I would think authorized would be able to give price as they have done before and no what is involved.

Here is a link to Hardware Users Manual in case you don't have or want electronic copy.

 

This SSD you're talking about isn't a CompactFlash card right? Because you are aware that CompactFlash cards have a limited number of write cycles, so the moment you install Windows on it, it will pretty much die, since the Windows OS likes to use page files which could incur hundreds of writes on the drive every minute, effectively killing the memory card in a few hours.

If you just want to try it out for fun, then go ahead. However, I assure you that you will be wasting your money, and that you will regret it, should you use a CF card as your main HD and put your important files on it.

If this SSD you're talking about is an actual Solid State Hard Drive, then please ignore everything I have written above.
In the UK, at a very respectable establishment, it would totally depend on the machine. Therefore, it is probably best to go and request a quote.
Normally HDs can be replaced by simply screwing out a few screws at the bottom of the laptop, although it sounds as if it is less straight forward with your laptop. Therefore, the cost could be significant.
At less respectable establishments, they might offer to do it at a fixed fee of a hundred dollars or less. In those situations, there is a probability that they will damage or destroy your laptop during the upgrade process, since people running those establishments are most likely less experienced when it comes to computers.

 

Well SSD harddrives are very expensive, so if you do not mind spending $800+ for an SSD, than go ahead.
Since it is an ultraportable, you probably have to take the whole thing apart to swap the harddrive for an SSD. Unfortunately that takes quite a bit of time, and most computer joints run $80 + an hour.
You are better off taking it apart your self, and swapping the disc, cause if a computer store does it, it will cost upwards of $300 for them to put the drive in.
Then after the drive is installed, you would have to reinstall everything, which takes even more time.

K-TRON

 

that's exactly what i was gonna do, but after reading this

 

That's an intimidating quote. I see it comes from here (one of my former haunts).

Given that it is a complex process, I wouldn't want to entrust the work to any computer shop but would look for an authorised Asus service agency. The untra-portables tend to be more difficult to work on and therefore the labour cost could well be higher.

If I were in your shoes I would defer this investment and put the money towards buying something new in the future when SSDs have come down more in price. Have you got the RAM up to the maximum the system will handle (if it uses the Intel 945GMS chipset than it can take a 2GB module - I've done that in my Sony G11).

John