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The inch notebook had not been updated since june 2012, but it remained available for. Looking to upgrade my 2007 macbook pro yes its still kicking. This hard drive caddy replaces the internal superdrive of your unibody macbook, macbook pro,15,17 with a it can be made part of raid array and bootable. Apple no longer sells a mac with a cd drive macrumors. What was last macbook pro to have upgradeable ram and hard.
This is the rear hard drive bracket for the macbook pro, mid 2009 and mid 2010 model. It continues with detailed instructions, complete with drawings, which absolutely should be read in their entirety before one replaces the hard drive. There is some confusion over the optical bay and the speeds. Macbook pro, 15, 17 inch unibody hdd caddy hdd caddy for. Apple has discontinued its nonretina legacy macbook pro, the last mac it sold with a builtin cddvd drive.
Study the pictures it may work in other models do you homework because i only know it works in the xr 1. Im looking to purchase a new 2015 mbp nonretina and was wondering if the dual hard drive upgrade is possible since all the installation instruction out there refer to a 2012 mpb unibody. Installing second hard drive in macbook pro optical drive bay. This caddy is compatible with apple macbook macbook pro that has a 9.
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