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Do the non-retina Macbook Pros still have upgradeable hardrives?

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Noam Chomsky

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May 5, 2014
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Hi all - quick question: does anyone know if the MD101B/A non-retina Macbook pro (the one on this page: http://store.apple.com/uk/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MD101B/A) has a hard drive that you can upgrade yourself?

The official answer is no. But my 2009 15" Macbook Pro's harddrive is supposed to be not upgradeable by the user, but in reality it was pretty easy.

Before I drop a serious chunk of money on a machine I want to know that I can upgrade the hard drive myself - anyone got any wisdom?

Thanks!
 
From your link :

"Hard Drive
Your MacBook Pro comes standardised with a 5,400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive. Or you can choose a solid-state drive that offers enhanced durability.
The larger the capacity (in gigabytes, or GB) of your hard drive, the more space is available to store your files and applications. A typical application today may take 10–50 megabytes (MB), photos may take up about 2–4MB each, graphics files can occupy more than 100MB and video files are often many gigabytes in size.

MacBook Pro also offers an optional 128GB, 256GB or 512GB solid-state drive, which has no moving parts for enhanced durability. These are SATA solid-state drives, which are up to four times faster than a traditional hard drive."
 
Yeah, the live chat guy was saying those are customisations on orders, but can't be upgraded afterwards, even if I take it to the apple shop. On the phone to tech support right now to have another chat.
 
Just got off the phone with Tech Support. The guy really didn't know the answer to the question. The drive is SATA, but he said it's going to be a lot harder than it used to be to pop the drive out and replace. How much harder, I don't know. Any guesses? Anyone looked inside one of the latest non-retinas? Any advice really appreciated.

Cheers
 
Noam Chomsky said:
Hi all - quick question: does anyone know if the MD101B/A non-retina Macbook pro (the one on this page: http://store.apple.com/uk/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MD101B/A) has a hard drive that you can upgrade yourself?

The official answer is no. But my 2009 15" Macbook Pro's harddrive is supposed to be not upgradeable by the user, but in reality it was pretty easy.

Before I drop a serious chunk of money on a machine I want to know that I can upgrade the hard drive myself - anyone got any wisdom?

Thanks!
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Exactly the same procedure to upgrade current 13" non-retina mbp as your 2009 15" mbp.

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Noam Chomsky said:
Just got off the phone with Tech Support. The guy really didn't know the answer to the question. The drive is SATA, but he said it's going to be a lot harder than it used to be to pop the drive out and replace. How much harder, I don't know. Any guesses? Anyone looked inside one of the latest non-retinas? Any advice really appreciated.

Cheers
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Tech support guys are clueless. The drive bay design did not change in current non retina model compared to all mbp from 2008 ie the aluminum unibody models.
 
thunng8 said:
Tech support guys are clueless.
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You can say that again. I had to explain to him what a SATA connection is. I think their primary role is to explain to people how to set up Time Machine. If you reckon the bay hasn't changed then I'll go ahead and get it. Thanks a bunch for the help guys.

Wilf
 
Noam Chomsky said:
You can say that again. I had to explain to him what a SATA connection is. I think their primary role is to explain to people how to set up Time Machine. If you reckon the bay hasn't changed then I'll go ahead and get it. Thanks a bunch for the help guys.

Wilf
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I don't reckon .. I know since I've had many mbp including the latest 13" non retina model which I replaced the hard disk with an ssd and it took about 5min to do.
 
thunng8 said:
I don't reckon .. I know since I've had many mbp including the latest 13" non retina model which I replaced the hard disk with an ssd and it took about 5min to do.
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Life saver. Do you have any wisdom for the retina models? I'm guessing they're a lot less upgradeable.
 
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