Getting the logic board out is easy... but mailing it safely may be difficult as it is so sensitive.
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2012-2015 rMBP RAM upgrade interest?
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Yeah, I’ll pull the SSD, but I’m not going g to want to pull out my logic board.
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Where in the US are you? If on one of the coasts, I could probably drop it off in person.
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Where in the US are you? If on one of the coasts, I could probably drop it off in person.
I don't have a 2015MBP, but if you offered this service I would consider buying one. $300 is a little too rich for me, though (not that you're time isn't worth it).
The chips alone are $320 with medium volume pricing ($10 each); not sure there would be much interest when labor is added.
Oh, I'm not saying it isnt worth every penny, and your labor isnt worth every penny. I just dont have the pennies right now. haha.
I have 2014 and 2015 MBPs but I would just prefer to get a 16 if I needed an upgrade. I got a decade from my 2008 and it was a great laptop. I am expecting to get a decade from the 2014 and 2015 laptops but I know that stuff can happen to laptops and my upgrade path is with the new models because support doesn't last forever.
Keep in mind that the 2016 MBP can't be upgraded. The storage and memory are soldered at time of purchase. According to everymac:
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16 = MacBook Pro 16, not a 2016 MacBook Pro.
I would not buy a MBP 2016, 2017, 2018 or early 2019.
Actually, the 2018 and spring 2019 MBPs are great machines. Not the most preferable typing experience for everyone but it never bothered me. I'd avoid the 2016 and 2017 though... flexgate is a deal breaker.
My reasons for avoiding 2016-early 2019:
- Touch Bar/Escape Key
- Butterfly Keyboard
- Butterfly Keyboard reputation and resale value
- The various other problems
- Why get 15 when you can get 16
- Airflow (thicker is better)
- Battery Life
- Reputation (16 is the first not considered a problem Mac)
commenting about soldered on ram in a thread about upgrading machines with soldered on ram...
They are MY reasons. They don't have to make sense to anyone else.
They all make perfect sense to me. Your unnecessary and dismissive reply is the thing that makes no sense.
doh! I'm an idiot.
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I thought it was a controller that was being swapped out so the slotted ram can upgraded to 32gb. am i wrong? resoldering increased ram capacity would be a greater cost.
You misunderstood. The 2012-2015 rMBP’s also had soldered on RAM (though modular SSDs). The service being pitched here is board level replacement of the RAM chips on these machines with higher capacity ones.
In principle this should be possible with the current generation models also, unless I’m mistaken. Though not likely a market for it yet.
In principle this should be possible with the current generation models also, unless I’m mistaken. Though not likely a market for it yet.
We are not totally positive if Apple permanently limits RAM in the EFI rom or the PCH for the retina MBPs.
Do you kmow which models used memory sticks and which used soldered chips? Or were they all hybrid?
Soldered RAM started with the 2012 retina MBP as far as the MBP is concerned.
All non retina screens are upgradeable chips, all retinas (including Touch Bar models) are not.
It has been done before on MacBook Airs, so we are just gauging interest for the retina MBPs.
Yep. With Retina books era of unpgradable Ram arrived. I’m from Moscow, but there wasn’t custom models of retina with 16gb. So i bought my late 2013 mbp with 16g of ram (custom) from the Guy who lived in London.
Well, if you want a guinea pig, I have a late 2013 15" with a dead display you could practice on.