I have a 2011 MacBook pro 15 with a 2.0 logic board, I am going to replace it with a 2.5. Will I see a lot better performance or just a little?
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There are too many variables to make a judgement here. Are you increasing the RAM? Replacing the Hard Drive with an SSD? Those two changes will be much more noticeable than upping the processor. Any other differences in the boards? Does one have discrete graphics the other built in? Otherwise, if all else is the same, the difference will be minor, maybe unnoticeable if you haven’t had bottlenecks at the CPU.
I installed 16 megs of Crucial and a Samsung 500gb SSD plus I removed the CD drive and installed another 500gb SSD. I have 4 gb of VRAM 256, I don't know the difference between discrete and built in.
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Well, you’ll see a major improvement from those upgrades. I suspect the new logic board, eh, not so much.
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I don’t actually see a 2.5 GHz model. 2.4 in late 2011?
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I don’t actually see a 2.5 GHz model. 2.4 in late 2011?
Well, I installed the new Logic board and it seems to work just fine, the graphics board was updated and it sure beats 2K+ for a new MacBook. Got to be careful putting that board in, lots of tiny screws and don't get any connectors caught beneath the new board when you install it. It's a 2.5 from what I understand you can get them up to 2.7/2.9
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Only one problem has surfaced. A window keeps coming up that asks me if I want to use a back up for previous hard drive, how do I keep that from appearing? It does not give me an option to disable it.
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Time machine will not backup my main SSD, it gives me an error message. I have tried for 3hrs to erase my B drive SSD and nothing I try will erase/format the drive.
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Select "Create New Backup", this will keep the old backup and start a new one. Of course this assumes that the disk drive has capacity to hold two backups. But apart from space there is nothing preventing you from having multiple TM backups on one disk.
SanDisk about a month old, I'd like to format it but I don't know how to do it. I removed it from my Laptop.
Do you have an external enclosure? You could put the ssd in an enclosure and attach it to a running machine, then run disk utility to try to format. If it’s a month old it should still be under warranty
I have a USB to SSD connector but am not sure how to run the disk utility. I have a windows 10 computer set up.
You could make a bootable USB flash drive with an OS installer, such as High Sierra or Mojave. Then hold down the option key when the MacBook pro boots up, select the usb as your boot drive. Go and get some coffee, the booting will take a while. Then choose disk utility from the top menu, and with the SSD connected to the computer, attempt to format. You could, alternatively, format the drive by attaching it to a PC, just to see if it works on any OS.
I threw the SSD on the back of my desk and ordered a new one, it will be here thur. I have wasted too much time screwing with this, they are cheap! I have it formatted but for some reason It will not dock anymore with my laptop.