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    Upgrade ?'s help on new MacBook Pro?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Philthy84, Dec 18, 2011.

  1. Philthy84

    Philthy84 Notebook Consultant

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    I have some questions for anyone who can help please? I just received my upgrades I plan to put in my MacBook Pro 15" late 2011 model and needed to know the best way to install them.

    8GB Ram - Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2), 204-pin SODIMM, DDR3 PC3-10600 Memory Module (CT2KIT51264BC1339)

    SSD - Crucial 256 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT256M4SSD2

    Can I just install both the RAM and SSD at the same time? Also what is the best way to reinstall the OS? I've read somewhere that I could just install the SSD and the OS will reinstall itself via internet after it detects the new SSD. Just want to make sure if this is correct or do I need to make a DVD backup right now with the original HDD? I haven't really installed anything on the original HDD except Adobe Flash so I'm not worried about losing anything.

    Finally my last question is what is the easiest way for me to get my songs from my Ipod transferred onto my new MBP/SSD? Thank you for any help in advance it would be appreciated.
     
    Philthy84, Dec 18, 2011
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  2. devilcm3

    devilcm3 Notebook Deity

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    put your SSD into external firewire enclosure ( USB is painfully slow ) and use disk utility to clone it into the SSD partition which you have to create the partition table first , that should solve most of your questions except the first one which is yes, you can install both.
     
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  3. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    You can install the SSD and memory at the same time. I would just use the disks that came with your Macbook to re-install OS X. You can put your old HDD in an external enclosure and use it as a back-up drive.
     
    Nick, Dec 18, 2011
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  4. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    hes got the 2011 lion pre installed ones.

    The best thing that you can do is to go on app store and download lion, saved it on a usb thumb drive, open the mbp, phillips #00, and go to the HDD there will be a ''spacer'' ,torx t6, remove the space and the HDD, carefully not to rip the ribbon sata cable (basically dont raise it too much before removing the cable).

    For the RAM, just open it and you will see it close to the battery, its a pain to remove the bottomost one, but you will succeed.

    close it, insert the thumbdrive and press comand + p on start up, it should trigger the auto download, if not it will go to the boot selection menu, where you will choose the thumbdrive to install lion.
     
    Karamazovmm, Dec 18, 2011
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