Put hard drive from late 2008 macbook pro into a new late 2011 macbook pro.

[nippyjun]

I'm thinking of getting a new late 2011 macbook pro. I have a late 2008 macbook pro with an ssd that i want to put into the new computer. Can I just physically put it in and it would would work?

It currently has snow leopard on it but i could udate to Lion first?

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

 

[alust2013]

you'll probably need to upgrade to lion first

 

[abdu2s]

you'll probably need to upgrade to lion first

Yup just pop it in.

i upgraded from 2009 model , the ssd had Lion installed.

i just put it in the new machine and it worked absolutely fine. same everything on a new machine!

But had to restart the PRAM to make things work smoother

 

[Mersailios]

You should be able to swap your existing Solid State Drive into a 2011 MacBook Pro without any problems, the only issue I can think of is if the new models are shipping with a later build of Mac OS X than what is available via the traditional combo update, if this is the case you would need to perform a re-install through Lion Internet Recovery on the new MacBook Pro instead of upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 before performing the swap.

 

[Naimfan]

Might not work with Snow Leopard, but if you change to Lion and update fully (to 10.7.2) before you swap them it should be fine.

 

[squeakr]

I did an early 2008 to an early 2011 with Snow Leopard and had no issues. I would just make sure you have the latest SL before the swap, when I did the swap that is all I did and it worked fine. WIll probably have to update after the swap, if specific files are needed, but that should be a given.

 

[nippyjun]

Thanks for all the replies!