I have upgraded hard drives and added RAM to MBPs, and things went smoothly. There are step by step instructions on-line with pix or videos.
I have been thinking about upgrading to an SSD on my 2011 MBP 17'. My MP tube has flash boot storage and I love the way it boots up quickly - about 15 seconds from power on to the mac desktop. Media Composer launches in about 18 seconds. Everything feels really snappy. I will bet you an Oki-Dog that you will love it.
- Rich
On Dec 22, 2014, at 5:23 PM, John Moore bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Time to spend some money before tax time. I have a MacBook Pro 17 inch model 5.2 inch with SN 6.5.4. It has a 500GB HD and 4Gig of Ram. I think it wise to up the ram to max 8GB before moving to Avid 7 and higher. At OWC I also see that I can go up to 2TB internal drive. I see up to 2.0 TB conventional drives at 5400 rpm. I see a HGST 1TB at 7200rpm. Then there are SSDs up to 480 GB. I'm curious about what benifit I might see in a 7200 rpm over the larger 5400 rpm. I'm pretty sure the factory drive that came with my MBP is 5400 so is size or speed more important? Or should I just jump into the SSD world. I see a 480 GB unit and a 1TB unit that is a combo HD SSD. I don't do a lot of heavy lifting on the MBP but with run Adobe CS4 and Avid to augment the edit systems I freelance on.I figure the DIY kits they have available will get me the correct specialty screwdrivers I might need. I remember Steve H said he upgraded his laptop DIY so it sounds doable. Anybody got any warnings about cracking open my laptop to upgrade myself?
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