Your link is broken, but this is the stuff.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231582
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MacBook Pro 13 with or without Retina?
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Your link is broken, but this is the stuff.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231582
I've read story after story about very high failure rates on OCZ SSD's. I wouldn't buy that brand. I have a Samsung 830 and it works great in my 2011 mini, and an older OWC SSD in my 2012 MacBook and that works great too. I've read good things about the Crucial M4's as well.
Yeah. I've read bad things about OCZ as well, but I've never used one so I cant verify that there are issues from personal experience. I can say that im very happy with the Crucial M4 that I have in my MBP and the Samsung 830 in my desktop PC.
Should i put the ram and the ssd in at the same time? or put one in and then wait a few days and then do the other? if so which do i do first?
Any issues with one or the other would show up in very different ways, so I would think it'd be ok to upgrade both at the same time. Like you noticed, it's a very simple upgrade so not a whole lot can go wrong.
thats what i figured. im ordering my stuff right now. ill let you know how everything goes. thanks again for all your help.
Yes but you can do all but the chip upgrade for about $120, so you have to ask whether or not the i5 to i7 is worth $180 to you.
When you say cochlea speaker, do you mean they will send sound directly to the implant?
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Decided to go with the cMBP i5 with 4gb RAM and 500 HDD. Bought a 256GB Samsung SSD for 165, and a 16gb ram upgrade for 75
I think you nailed the price/performance optimization point. Now if you really want a boss machine, you can order yourself an optibay caddy and build your own 750GB Fusion Drive for a mere $50 more.
http://tomasz.korwel.net/2012/11/04/apple-fusion-drive-on-late-2010-macbook-pro/
The idea is that you swap the optical drive for the 500GB drive that you'll be taking out to replace with the SSD. Many upgraders run that configuration as a dual drive setup, manually placing OSX system files and frequently accessed data on the SSD, and placing infrequently accessed data on the HDD.
However, since the announcement of Fusion, some have discovered that OSX 10.8 will do the data management automatically if you conjoin the two drives in Terminal creating a single "Fusion" volume (just like Apple presumably will be doing in the new iMac line). In the above referenced link, a user does so on a legacy cMBP-15, in essence giving himself a Fusion drive in his laptop before the Apple version even hits the market in the iMac.
To be fair, the "Fusion" hack is new enough that you'd be a bit of a guinea pig if you did it, but I'm strongly considering it for our cMBPs.
Alright so I got my MBP today and my SSD should be here tomorrow. Just wanted to double check that when I re download mountain lion via the way the link says to that you gave me, it will come with everything that it has originally? I just have to install iLife from the App Store?
Correct, it'll install OSX with everything excluding iLife. If you want you can also customize your OSX install so it doesn't include all the extra languages and printer drivers that you probably don't need. Just watch for the "Options" button to come up and select it when it does.
Thank you so much. The more i do with this machine the more i realize how simple it is
I just installed the SSD and booted in the recovery menu. i chose my language and that i wanted to re-install the os. it then asks me to select the disk where i want to install the OS x and does not display anything. what should i do?
i took out the screws on the bottom plate, unplugged the battery, took out the 2 screws holding the clamp down, unplugged the cable, and took out and reinstalled the 4 screws on the HHD to the SSD and i made sure the plug was connected and that the clamp was secure and that the battery was re connected. what did i do wrong?
Same here
Decided that my 2008 Dell laptop needed to be upgraded: So, I got the basic cMBP i5, just like you, bought 16GB RAM, already had a 256GB Samsung 830 SSD. What a sweet and fast machine!!! Now, I'll just wait until I can get the 512GB Crucial m4 SSD for under $300 and replace the optical drive with it.
Same here
Decided that my 2008 Dell laptop needed to be upgraded: So, I got the basic cMBP i5, just like you, bought 16GB RAM, already had a 256GB Samsung 830 SSD. What a sweet and fast machine!!! Now, I'll just wait until I can get the 512GB Crucial m4 SSD for under $300 and replace the optical drive with it.
Im so excited to get this thing up and running. my ram should be here tomorrow and im transferring my info from my dell to my mac right now
Don't self hard drive upgrades, let alone Optibay ones, void AppleCare? This is what they told me over the phone in any case.
OP, I love my 15" rMBP and my 13" cMBP but the 13" rMBP seems a bit neither here nor there. Obviously à chacun son gout but I think 15" is your best bet (and value proposition) for Retina, and the MBA, followed by the MBP, for a 13" notebook.
OP, I love my 15" rMBP and my 13" cMBP but the 13" rMBP seems a bit neither here nor there. Obviously à chacun son gout but I think 15" is your best bet (and value proposition) for Retina, and the MBA, followed by the MBP, for a 13" notebook.
Apple allows for RAM and HDD upgrades in the cMBPs. Anything beyond that and you may run into warranty issues. Apple doesn't cover the warranty of the user installed parts, of course.