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moralles

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Aug 8, 2014
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Hi,

I have bought a Early 2013 13" macbook pro i7 3.0GHz (A1425)

It had its ssd removed by the place I bought it from.

There is still no ssd inside

Powers on while charger is connected, goes black as soon as you take it out.

I ran it from external ssd and it was running ok, just extremely slow.

I have poped the back cover off and It seems like the battery is connected.

It was probably never disconnected while they were taking the ssd out.

My question is:


*Does SSD not being inside has anything to do with laptop not getting power from battery?
*What connections should i check to make sure it is all connected?





Also

*Is it normal for it to run extremely slow when booting from external drive (16Gb usb2 flash)?


Thanks a lot!
 

*Is it normal for it to run extremely slow when booting from external drive (16Gb usb2 flash)?


Thanks a lot!

Yes, since USB 2.0 is a slow interface and then many USB flash storage thumb drives have quite slow flash modules, with transfer speeds of around 5 to 20 MB/s. Even a USB 2.0 HDD is faster than that.

May we know, why the flash module is removed?
 
I have bought it off an auction so they remove all memory as a standard procedure to protect any information previous owner might have left behind.

BTW: Thanks for the reply! Still need to figure out the battery thing.
 
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