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Thinking of new MBP

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skygremlin

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Jan 14, 2009
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I've just about made up my mind on getting a Refurbished MBP 15" (Refurbished MacBook Pro 2.6GHz Quad-core Intel i7).

Can we still upgrade the RAM and add a second HDD in these laptops? I'd like to start with 8 gig and them upgrade to 16Gig if necessary. Also move the internal 750 Gig HDD to the optical drive slot, and put in a SSD... I currently have an '09 MBP duo core. I don't do that much video or photo editing. But I do run VMFusion daily. Sometimes 2 or 3 Vm's at a time.

Does anybody have any thoughts?


thanx
 
If you mean a refurb cMBP, yes. If you mean a refurb retina MBP, then no.
 
hmmm so much for my ability to multitask... :( sorry the the title should have read Thinking about new MBP... I don't even know how to change that.. Oh well...
 
Orlandoech said:
But your post title says "rmbp".

You cannot make any changes via Apple with refurb models.
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Are you talking about making hardware changes before purchasing?

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thanx maflynn - In my defense we just got a new puppy...:D
 
Buy the lowest spec refurb you can get with the processor you want and upgrade RAM and HDD aftermarket. It'll be cheaper than even the high-spec refurbs.

You can take it up to 16GB RAM and put whatever HDD/SDD in that you want. Personally, I think that the Seagate Momentus XT is the way to go if you need lots of storage space, as opposed to the SSD/Optibay route, others will disagree.
 
As long as you do not mind a lower resolution display without anti glare, get the 2012 refurb model. The graphics card is much better than the AMD one.
 
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