{"id":709,"date":"2017-08-03T14:28:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T19:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/?p=709"},"modified":"2017-08-03T14:35:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T19:35:21","slug":"swapping-macbook-pro-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/swapping-macbook-pro-ssd\/","title":{"rendered":"Swapping Macbook Pro SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes. You can upgrade to a newer MacBook Pro by just swapping the SSD. I looked around the\u00a0webs and couldn’t find whether it was feasible, so I just did it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I had a Late-2013 MBP and a Mid-2015 MBP. Both are same in every aspect, except (1) GPU, (2) TrackPad, (3) Keyboard, (4) Battery.<\/p>\n

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  1. New AMD Radeon R9 M370X vs. older\u00a0Nvidia GeForce GT 750M. Both discreet GPU performs well. Nvidia has a\u00a0faster clock but AMD has slightly better benchmarks.<\/li>\n
  2. New TrackPad had Force Touch. This means I didn’t need to keep two fingers to press; one to aim, one to click the bottom.<\/li>\n
  3. New Keyboard feels more responsive, more rubbery, less force needed to push. This slight difference can only be felt when gotten used to the older one.<\/li>\n
  4. New Battery is a big issue for me. I had close to 500 cycles on the old laptop, and this new one has like 20.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I opened both and swapped their SSDs.\u00a0To open Apple’s proprietary screws require a Pentalobe P5 (1.2mm), and a Torx T5 (or was it T4?).<\/p>\n

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    Both booted as normal.\u00a0Not much difference in hardware. I did it for science and curiosity. Plus I could air blast the dust out\u00a0of the vents.<\/p>\n

    I was signed out of iCloud\u00a0and other email accounts. Safari and Chrome extensions were lost. Safari extension LastPass was already logged in when I reinstalled, and Chrome too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Yes. You can upgrade to a newer MacBook Pro by just swapping the SSD. I looked around the\u00a0webs and couldn’t find whether it was feasible, so I just did it. I had a Late-2013 MBP and a Mid-2015 MBP. Both are same in every aspect, except (1) GPU, (2) TrackPad, (3) Keyboard, (4) Battery. New … Continue reading Swapping Macbook Pro SSD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}