In fact, I actually went so far as to order one, open up my laptop and attempt to install the thing. I took a long, hard look at the Optibay, which allows users to install a hard drive into their optical bays. I decided recently that it was time to upgrade. With 50GB of music taking a big chunk of my hard drive space, I was getting tired of having to move media off to external drives. I couldn’t convince myself to spring for the 256GB drive then, mostly because the price for the drive was around $450. The single biggest upgrade in performance was, by far, the SSD. A 128GB SSD and 8GB RAM later (which is much cheaper now than it was then), my laptop was a freaking workhorse. The Apple upcharge on upgrading individual components being what it is, it was significantly cheaper to buy the MBP with a 320GB HD and 4GB RAM and upgrade everything myself. When I first bought my current MBP in early 2012 (13” unibody) I bought it with base specs. I figure this might help someone, if the google desires it so. Upgrading a Macbook Pro SSD with SuperDuper! Upgrading a Macbook Pro SSD with SuperDuper! |
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