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Removing Optical Drive from Macbook Pro 2009

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Ashley0609

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Hello all,

I was just wandering if I could remove my MBP '09 optical drive? Or would I have to put something in it's place?

Cheers
 
gngan

gngan

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Ashley0609 said:
Hello all,

I was just wandering if I could remove my MBP '09 optical drive? Or would I have to put something in it's place?

Cheers
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Of cause you can remove the optical drive. In fact, you can remove the motherboard too but you never state why you would want to remove the optical drive.
 
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Ashley0609

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Planning on having it in an enclosure for my Mac Mini and GFs MBA. Then swapping out the HDD for a small SSD to give me a (negligibly) lighter laptop for just word processing bits. So is it OK to just leave a gap where the optical drive should be?
 
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gngan

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Ashley0609 said:
Planning on having it in an enclosure for my Mac Mini and GFs MBA. Then swapping out the HDD for a small SSD to give me a (negligibly) lighter laptop for just word processing bits. So is it OK to just leave a gap where the optical drive should be?
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You won't feel much difference. I have a dual drive setup and when i remove the optical drive, it isn't that heavy. I think it should be alright to leave the gap.
 
Dadioh

Dadioh

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Yes you can. I did this on 2 Macbooks that I use as media players and didn't need the DVD drives. The empty space doesn't affect anything. Just be prepared to remove the bottom if someone slides a DVD in there without knowing :)
 
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