It is not the raw speed of the SSD, it is how it works. I dont have to wait for the CPU to catch up, there is no spinning beachball, there is no lag. I edited the images for this article in Photoshop, uploaded them to our server using Cyberduck, and I'm running Mail and Excel in the background. I'm running two browsers (Firefox and Chrome. I am typing this article on a 2010 Macbook Pro with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD drive.
#SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO A1502 UPGRADE#
A RAM upgrade is easy, a Mac SSD upgrade is a bit harder, but with this guide you'll be an expert with all the knowledge to make an SSD upgrade simple.įor general use, most modern Macbooks have enough CPU power. Replace it with an SSD, and the speed increase is incredible. The second bottleneck is your the hard drive. (Did you expect that bit of truth from the Mac memory upgrade guys?) You really only need 8GB and an SSD for a super speedy Mac. If it is a choice between 16GB and an SSD, choose an SSD. You need at least 8GB of RAM for the current macOS. Applications will open quicker, starting up is snappy, and the overall result is extending the life of your Mac.įirst bottleneck is RAM. Fix both and you can make your Mac run like new. There are two speed bottlenecks in a Macbook Pro notebook.
#SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO A1502 HOW TO#
How to clone your Crucial SSD with Acronis.How To Upgrade Your Mac Mini with an SSD.How To Upgrade Your Macbook Air with an SSD.How To Upgrade Your Macbook Pro with an SSD.So I guess the answer is yes, it will work but not in the size I'd like. I'd probably be able to recoup some part of it by selling my MBP A1278 but my wife is getting that one since her 2010 MBP had an unfortunate soda-related accident.ĭo you have any thoughts or experience on using one of these adapters to adapt a much cheaper M.2 1 TB SSD to the A1502 logic board?Įdit: looks like the adapters will only work with AHCI drives and not the NVMe drives, and it's impossible to find 1 TB drives in AHCI. Right now the bank account isn't quite ready for me to drop another $6-700 on a 1 TB SSD.
As far as I can tell it would have had the PCIe x4 drive in that spot before it was pulled. This laptop I'm getting came from eBay (should be showing up next week), is an early 2015 A1502 with a 3.1 Ghz i7 and according to the listing the SSD has been pulled so as far as I'm expecting it will have a blank spot where the SSD goes when it arrives. Found This wiki entry which explains the edge connectors on the M.2 standard but curious what the center-slotted Retina MBP connector standard is as it doesn't look like anything else out there, and I really don't want to spend that much on an SSD if I can help it. Searching for "1 TB macbook SSD" brings up some much cheaper options but I'm confused looking at the connectors - on the Apple OEM SSD it looks like the edge connector slot is near-center for the MBP's and off-center for the Air's. So searching eBay for "macbook A1502 SSD" brings me up a bunch of apple OEM 1 TB drives with prices starting right around the $700 mark, which is a lot more than I want to spend considering how much of this last paycheck I just dropped on the used Macbook. Given current usage on my 2011 MBP I think I want a 1 TB drive, but it appears that the A1502 only has space for the PCIe stick SSD and not a SATA drive like the older Macbooks used, so I can't reuse the drive out of my old MBP. Just bought myself a used Macbook Pro A1502 on eBay.
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