Logic board upgrade question.

[Cmetzger93]

Hi my first post on this forum. I'm hoping someone more technologically saavy will be able to assist me. I have an early 2011 13" MacBook Pro with a 2.3ghz i5 logic board and was wondering if it would be possible to change to the 2.7ghz i7 logic board and if so would the difference be noticeable or negligible? Thanks you guys!

 

[TheIguana]

You are looking at close to $800 from most any source for a logic board like that... If you need more oomph you would really be better off putting that money towards a new MBP.

 

[artfun]

I doubt that processor upgrade alone will result noticeable difference for most of regular tasks.

 

[pragmatous]

You're better off just saving that money and putting it towards a brand new macbook pro. Whenever you get caught in thinking you need to upgrade a laptop's logic board it's time to save up for a new one.

Hi my first post on this forum. I'm hoping someone more technologically saavy will be able to assist me. I have an early 2011 13" MacBook Pro with a 2.3ghz i5 logic board and was wondering if it would be possible to change to the 2.7ghz i7 logic board and if so would the difference be noticeable or negligible? Thanks you guys!

 

[Cmetzger93]

Thank you guys so much. You're awesome and very helpful I was actually curious if the 2.3 i5 and the 2.7 i7 were interchangeable for the early 2011 mbp because I was going to buy a defective one off eBay for cheap and rebuild it but I wanted to know if it was interchangeable first. Thank you.