MacBook Pro 15" Anti-Glare screen swap possible?

[tomcoolj]

Had a search on this - nothing came up.

As I write this I am on my MBP 15" i5 2.4 w/ High-res + anti glare.

I might be getting a standard 2.53 i5 next week with the glossy screen.


Can I in theory swap the complete displays over, and would it work?

Thanks for any information

 

[alust2013]

You could, but it would be pretty easy to mess up. There is a lot of delicate cabling and connectors that could break. 2.4 to 2.53 isn't really even an upgrade either. The noticeable speed difference will be zero.

 

[tomcoolj]

Its for the graphics memory mainly. Its 512MB in the 2.53GHz?

I take apart various MacBooks etc quite a lot so I should be ok on that side of things. I even changed a hard drive in a iBook G4 once . . . .!

 

[alust2013]

Its for the graphics memory mainly. Its 512MB in the 2.53GHz?

I take apart various MacBooks etc quite a lot so I should be ok on that side of things. I even changed a hard drive in a iBook G4 once . . . .!

Graphics memory is the same. The only ones with 512MB were the i7s

 

[corvus32]

EDIT: Yeah, what he said.

 

[tomcoolj]

so other than the hard drive, and slight faster processor there is no difference in the MacBook Pros?

 

[alust2013]

so other than the hard drive, and slight faster processor there is no difference in the MacBook Pros?

Nope. Not at all worth the trouble IMO. If you need a bigger hard drive, just buy one and do the easy install rather than a screen swap (risky). Hard drives are cheap.

 

[tomcoolj]

I'm not going to bother now, no point. I've got a one of those Apple SSD's anyway, so I'll stick with that