Remove the top cover, pull from the backside near the hinge for the screen.ĭisconnect the battery to be on the safe side, I used a little plastic to push it up. I arrange the screws the same way as I removed it as a practice so I do not forget. Turn it around and remove the screws using the philips screwdriver. The following photos are the steps that it took me to replace both those components. To proceed with the upgrade I needed two screwdriver types: SSD : SanDisk SDSSDA-480G 480GB SSD PLUS Solid State Drive RAM : Gskill FA-1333C9D-16GSQ 16GB DDR3 1333 Mac Compatible Memory 2011 Series I went to Lazada PH and checked if there’s RAM compatible for this old macbook pro, also looked for an SSD drive, and I found the following: And its a no brainer since its one of the few user serviceable parts in a macbook pro. Usually with these older laptops, you can easily get massive performance boost by upgrading the RAM and the storage device. I considered getting a new one but for the cost and I generally just don’t like the newer macbook pros, it might be worthwhile to just upgrade this one. It has the following:ĬPU : 2.4 GHz dual-core Intel i5 processor with 3MB 元 cache

The device is a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) A1278. After updating the macOS X Lion to Sierra and installing XCode, the hardware started to show its age. I’ve recently needed an iOS development machine for a couple of projects, and while I could use a hackintosh or a macOS inside a virtual machine (VM), I thought that I could use an old MacBook Pro we have lying around.

Macbook pro ssd drive a1278