Any way at all to upgrade the CPU in a MacBook Pro?

[LeeM]

See? Not the only person who's removed a CPU from a laptop.

And of course I can't tell you the model numbers. It was over a year ago. I can tell you that one was a Dell and the other was an Acer. Both were under 500$. I know the Dell had a 2.1 Ghz Pentium Dual Core and the Acer had a 2.3 Ghz dual core AMD. Both were in a socket that had unlock mechanisms meaning they were designed to be removed.

my old lenovo had a removeable processor, it was as thick as a house brick. also, when i came to open it to see if it was upgradeable i couldnt find anything modern that would fit.
all you could do if yours was plug in rather than solder is put another of the same generation in.
oh and my lenovo was worth **** all, in a couple of years when my macbook needs an upgrade i'll just sell it and buy a new one. the joy of apple products is that they retain a **** load of value. cant afford it? quit your moaning an be thankful you even have a computer

 

[DareDevil01]

Good luck finding a laptop from another brand that is more upgradable than your MBP.

Most laptops had socketed CPU's up until 2015 when Intel dropped socketed mobile CPU support altogether with Skylake. I originally had an i5-2450M in my Dell XPS 15 and replaced it with the second fastest mobile CPU in the Sandy Bridge line-up (i7-2860QM). It made quite a difference in Premiere render times. Very handy indeed. Even back in 2012 there were laptops that were relatively thin that still had dedicated GPUs, this is true even more so today with many Ultrabooks including nVidia 1050ti and 1060 graphics. Some even now have 2080 MaxQ designs where they are practically as thin as a 2013 rMBP and have near-desktop level graphics. Apple continually sacrifice good thermals and upgradability for a slimmer form factor (look at the 2018 i9 MacBook Pros or 2013 Mac Pro. This has been key to their design ethos (even leading to the inherently flawed butterfly keyboard that fails when dust gets under the membrane, they've just announced that their 2018 MBP is covered under their keyboard repair program). In saying that I do really like my 2013 rMBP. But when it dies I'm going to get a 15" ASUS Zephyrus 2080 RTX laptop and dual-boot Windows 10 and MacOS, I won't have to worry about keyboard issues. (I'm currently dual-booting on my 2017 7700k custom rig).
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Well as it was near the top of the threads due to other people posting today not far...

Still haven't answered the question yet though, somehow doubt you will.

I'm not familiar enough with other models outside Apple but here are a few I've worked on that had socked, upgradeable CPUs (within their respective micro-architecture generation, ie an i5 2540m can be upgrade to a 2860qm)
Dell Studio 2009 series>XPS 2010-2011 series
HP DV6/DV7 2009-2012 series >HP ProBook 2010-2011 series>HP EliteBook 2012
Most MSI/Asus laptops circa-Skylake.
I'm sure there are other laptops and brands that I have left out but again, I can't comment on what I'm not familiar with.

 

[Queen6]

Necro thread, last post was over 7 years ago, so this one's done

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