I followed the really simple guide on the Apple support site. Step 2: Create a Bootable installer USB with OS X El Capitan My plan was to start completely from scratch with this new SSD, and put the old HDD in the enclosure so that I could boot from it whenever I needed to access some of my precious old files. I eventually found my way here – and decided to go for the 240GB HDD to SSD Upgrade Kit. Then, I found my device “Model Identifier” to be Early 2011 MacBookPro8,3 by going to About This Mac and clicking “System Report.” I found a really handy upgrade picker on to get started. I had heard many stories of people upgrading their older MacBook with an SSD – so I thought I would start there. Over the last few months I got sick of looking at this beautiful but completely un-used device sitting on my desk – so I decided to figure out what I could do to upgrade it.īelow is a detailed explanation of how I upgraded my MacBook Pro… While it was super speedy back then, it’s turned into a bit of a slug lately – even after I upgraded it to 16gb of RAM (from 8). So, back when I did my masters degree in computer engineering, I chose to go with a MacBook Pro for my primary device. Menu Upgrading my 2011 MacBook Pro on Apple, MacBook, OS X, Windows 10
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