The most common repairs with the macbook pro unibody models are replacing a dead battery or upgrading the hard drive or ram. Replacing a macs 500gb or 1tb hard drive with a samesized ssd required at least. The later model also abandoned the ubiquitous firewire 400 port. Shinestar 2nd hdd ssd hard drive caddy tray replacement for macbook pro padarsey 9229034, 9229314, 9229751 8210812a, 8211198a, 8210989a.
Differences between late 2008 and mid2009 macbook pro. Firewire is faster than usb 2, but i dont know of any way to upgrade your computer to usb 3. In kens situation, he would put the mac mini into target disk mode, attach it to his macbook pro using firewire or thunderbolt, and then boot. How do you upgrade the hard drive in the mid 2009 inch, 15inch, and 17inch macbook pro core 2 duo models. You can also configure your macbook pro with a different hard drive. While the 2010 mac mini limits you to firewire 800 or usb 2. Owcs stepbystep video of how to install a hard drive or ssd in the apple macbook pro mid 2009 unibody with model. Compares and contrasts the inch sdfirewire 800 macbook pro models. Memory and the hard drive are easily accessed from the bottom of the computer. Way to solve the problem also on my macbook pro mountain lion. Macbook pro unibody mid 2009 parts for diy repair. In the us and many other countries, site sponsor other world computing sells storage upgrades for this macbook pro.
In early 2009, the 17 macbook pro joined the 15 version in having a. Dates sold, processor type, memory info, hard drive details, price and. Use firewire with devices that connect using a firewire 400 or firewire 800 cable. How to add a fast new ssd to your old mac or macbook for only. So my mid 2009 macbook pro hard drive has died on me and im looking to replace it. Mhz ddr3 sdram pc38500, support for serial ata hard drives. How to connect macbook pro with firewire toms guide forum. With the mid 2009 model inch macbook pro unibody laptop, apple brought back the firewire 800 port, and added an sd card slot. Devices that can benefit from the highspeed rate transfer include but are not limited to digital camcorders, external hard drives and video. Install a 2nd hddssd by replacing the optical drive. The advantage of cloning your hard drive is that you will be able to boot from the ssd without removing your hard drive for testing. When plugging in a firewire 400 external hdd the compute.
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