2011 MacBook Pro Upgrades (HD, RAM, Battery, Cleaning, Thermal Paste) April 04, 2019
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- I put a new solid state drive in my MacBook Pro 2011 along with some new RAM and a new battery. I cleaned the inside and added new thermal paste to the heat sync. If you are interested in how this is done please watch.
If you stay till the end I give a little rant about why new Apple MacBooks are not up to the standard they used to be. Apple is really going down hill. It seems we live in a disposable society and no one makes quality stuff anymore, not even Apple. However they are still charging the big price tag on the inferior merchandise. I encourage you all to do your research before buying new computer equipment, you may be in for an awakening, I sure was!
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It is running great now. It is awesome having the extra big HD, I was able to fit all of my music back on my laptop and get my original pics back from the cloud. No issues at all.
Very informative video. You did a great job! Removing the entire motherboard just to reapply the thermal paste looks a bit scary. Now that I've watched the video, I know what to look for. Very well done... Thanks for sharing.
Best Tutorial I have enjoyed! Thank you very much 🤠
Thanks
Yes, I'll do the thermal paste application this weekend.
Awesome job guy's i needed a guide to repaste my cpu and this worked like a charm hope you guys are faring well with corona virus.
So far so bad
Great video. Really useful
Thank you
Very smart. The older Macbook pros are quite solid and respond very well to all of the measures you have taken. In Burma I have several machines that are just as old, operating in horrible environments.
Cool
Really great video. I have to rebuild mine, because I can't afford a new one. You're an inspiration and a logical teacher.
Thank you
Really helpful vid. Thanks
No problem
You can get some of the dust off that way, just make sure you blow it out of the machine and not under some other parts. It isn’t hard to take apart and I was scared when I first started but it worked out great in the end.
wow this is really amazing video I gonna have to follow this video co'z i have a macbook pro late 2011 and i'm planning to upgrade it.
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Thank you!!
You are welcome
Few years late to this video but I want to say you did an excellent job! Both on your upgrades, I’m a fairly technical oriented person (only replaced a few phone batteries) and your video was presented very well. I’ve not had any overheating issues, including with the separate built in gpu, but your video is inspiring to repaste the cpu and gpu since after 12 years that paste is absolutely dried out. Thank you. I think this video is absolutely still relevant! Wish Apple would’ve continued OS X updates, not that these machines would be able to use the new software features haha Thank you again
Forgot to say Apple deserves the rant. Even if soldering the ram and storage helped with space the speeds aren’t faster and their pricing for upgrades from the factory have always been outrageous! The lack of ability to upgrade or repair is just silly, to be polite haha, other manufacturers use standard laptop ram and standard storage drives, storage drives that are compatible with desktops!, and cost at worst the same. But they’re upgradable and/or fixable, c’mon Apple
Nice Thanks
You are welcome
How is the Macbook running now? I have a 2011 MBP 13 inch I am thinking about doing the upgrades to vs buying a new Mac.
Thanks ma’am i’ll cleanup my laptop soon i have same 2011 laptop but i5 variant
It is worth it, new Macs are junk!
Thank you very much for the clear instructions i have opened my macbook 2 times…still working !!
thank you for this vid! Extremely helpful! did you ever end up having any trouble with the thermal paste?
Not yet, it is still going strong!
@@hagenaarsfamily9794 awesome! thanks again
I gave you a like for the rant! lol Love it. Apple have just gotten greedy.
You're so right, Ive got a late 2011 17". It was an unbelievable machine until I took it to apple for something minor (Cant remember what). They changed my GPU and told me it was a recall. Months later, I had so many issues with the screen glitching etc.
It resulted in a white screen March 2020. Apple told me to recycle it as its out of date. (So rude).
I done loads of research and only a few days ago I managed to find a fix. Its back up and running like it used to be.
Again, apple are nothing but fraudulent.
Nice upgrade! I have the same Mac and I'm just about to upgrade it to 240 GB SSD and 8GB RAM, i'm scared of doing something wrong even if I already watch more than 10 tutorials, but you gave me the confidence I needed, I hope everything turns out well. Also, I thought it couldn't be upgraded to anything more than 8 GB, guess that was false lol. Now I want to upgrade to 16 GB RAM.
Good luck!
I’m a bit late to the party but anyone looking into upgrading ram on these. Just do a few google searches. The max ram listed for my 2011 15inch from Apple was 8gb, I’ve been running 16gb at faster speed than was listed for 8gb from Apple since 2015. Do some research. There are websites/ companies that can help you find parts that they’ve tested that’ll work.
Thx for info bro i am cleaning my laptop tomorrow and if everything goes well i’ll go for an upgrade
Thats a lot of work just for repasting. it would be way more user friendly to put the processor facing the back of the machine... was going to do the paste refresh but now, will wait a bit longer.Already did the SSD upgrade and and ram a long time ago. And that's why I still have this machine. The original battery is still Holding 4700mah from 5770 Over all not bad when I have windows installed too.New Macbooks these days a big cash grab for people not using for professional purposes.
Yeah the new machines are very expensive and will never last as long as these old gals lasted. I had an issue with mine a while back and I thought the hard drive failed so I got it replaced under warranty but it turns out that likely wasn’t the issue. I needed a machine everyday for a course I was on so I picked up a 2012 MacBook Pro and it also works great. I switched the ram and put the new hard drive in there. I didn’t realize that with this HD I needed to format it first, I don’t remember doing that in this video, maybe I need to rewatch it lol. Anyway I almost sent this one back too but then watched a few more videos from others and figured it was the formatting. I don’t think I went back to my old machine to see what actually was the issue when I got this one up and running. And this one has the upgraded OS from my old one so I cannot even just stick this new HD in the old one now. Either way I got some spare parts now. The new Macs have build in obsolescence and will not likely make it 10 or 11 years.
Nicely done. Do you have the link for the battery replacement?
I bought the battery from iFixit, canada.ifixit.com. I just recently bought an iPhone 5S screen repair kit from them and I fixed my son’s phone with it last week. They are a good company.
I have bad news and good news. For the bad news, this battery died in 2021, I was a bit upset that it hadn't lasted longer so I contacted the company. For the good news, they were awesome about it, sent me a new one free of charge and asked I take a pic of the serial number of the dead one and email it back. Awesome customer service, hands down!!!!!!!
I have just upgraded my MacBook Pro early 2011 13 inch with 8g of ram and a Kingstone 480 G SSD and everything works great but just noticed that my MacBook Pro heats a lot it still gets very warm
Did you clean it well and did you put on new thermal paste?
Fyi to everyone reading this, theses unibody macbook pros run very warm regardless of how much thermal paste you put or how much you clean the internals, the 2011 models are of no exception to this. This is why the unibodys can run into GPU failure because when the fans are set to auto by default they don't run as often as they should.
thermal paste Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut and Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut, can it be used on the 13 inch unibody 2011 macbook pro?
One Luffy I am not sure, as I say in the video I am not a professional LOL. I watched lots of other videos before I attempted this one.
Does your mac not have GPU issues? I had to solider a CMIzpper onto the logic board. Now it's back to life and working sweet. Running music software no probs at all. I swapped out the Dvd for a 2nd hard-drive with a 10$ caddy.
No I had no GPU issues but I like the idea of swapping the DVD drive out since the MacBook got bumped one time and the opening to the drive is less accessible now, well pretty much completely in accessible.
@@hagenaarsfamily9794 Cool you must have got lucky with no GPU issue! It was a major fault at the time. Apple did a recall but those Macs failed again and were scraped, which is a shame. People didn't know about the fix. "The right to repair as you mentioned!" Another issue with Apple is the OS goes out of date. They force you to buy newer machines. Lookup "DosDude". It's a way to upgrade the OS on unsupported machines. I'm running Mojave very smoothly but I could upgrade if needed on the 2011. Search on Ebay for " 2nd sata hdd ssd 2011 " ;-)
Thanks for the instructions how to upgrade. 13"My MacBook Pro 2011, i7 500GB needs new RAM. Should I buy "Samsung NB 8GB DDR3 1333 x 2 pc, or the DDR3 1600? The DDR3 16000 is selling x1. I would have to buy 2 pcs. Could you please advise what to buy? What is the difference between the 2 versions? I am not an expert. I can remove and install RAM. Thank you for helping.
I am no expert on RAM, check Apple’s website to make sure they are both compatible and pick the best you can afford.
I'm a 2011 MacBook Pro13 inch early i5 dual core, can I upgrade to i7 4 cores?
From what I read I don’t think this is possible but I am no professional at this so maybe there is a way.
Did you have a problem with your macbook running hot? I idle around 65C and 80-85C when watching HD videos. Did the thermal paste fix your issues?
renegaDe yes it was running hot, 90C and when I changed the thermal paste it was lower, 70-80C range.
Hi, whats the temperature you Mac is usually going? Im think mine is overheat
Thanks
If you have a unibody macbook pro, then the temperature can be naturally hot because of the way they are designed, which is why sometimes the bottoms of these computers can feel hot. However, if it feels very very hot and mabye you smell smoke, you should definitely check the internals.
I think it was 90 degrees but I cannot remember. If definitely heats up when opening lot of applications.
Hello, I'm too scared to remove each part. Can I remove only the cover and blow all the dust with a blower?
i cleaned my laptop! my fan was nearly blocked from the dust! now it runs smoothly without heating problems!
Were you able to clean your fan without removing a bunch of Hardware pieces?
Isaac Baric yes!
Isaac Baric How do I contact you privately to show you the results?
lol update here: just got the M1 air
Honestly i dont know why you didnt clean that board but you just put it back like full.of dust i cant explain it.
I did clean it off with compressed air, away from the camera.
Do RAMs always come in pairs? Or can I just put in 1 8gb RAM?
I am no expert, I always thought they had to come in pairs but I might be wrong. Go to Canada Ram.com and I am sure they can answer all your questions about your specific device.
I am no RAM expert but I do think they need to be paired and the same size. As in you cannot put an 8GB in one slot and a 16GB in the other. Maybe someone else can chime in here!
Hi can you share please the new battery name?
I bought the battery from IFIXIT online.
I had to replace that battery a month ago so it only lasted 2 years, unlike my original MacBook battery. Not sure if that is typical or not.
I did everything the same but now my Mac won’t turn on... please help
Mike go back through the steps and make sure that you plugged everything back in that you had unplugged. I had forgotten one plug and had to take the screws off again to plug it in.
Hagenaars Family I only unplugged and replaced the ssd and memory cards and a simple cleaning on the fan... double checked all plugs....
Mike are you sure your memory cards are snapped in well? Are they compatible with your machine also? You can try putting the old parts back in to make sure it isn’t a compatibly issue. If that still doesn’t work you will have to take it to an Apple store unfortunately.
Hagenaars Family I’ll try putting the old pieces back together to see but all parts were for my MacBook I checked on crucials site mem and sad
Mike I guess the most important thing is if your power cable got put back on well, the next would be the battery plug.
Waaaay too fast on the video!
Watch it with the speed reduced.
You spent $700 to upgrade that old MacBook. Sorry, but that's way too much money for something that it's too old. You could've easily found a newer model on Ebay for that price. 👎👎👎
I doubt I could have found one with upgraded RAM and hard drive in a MacBook. Even one a year newer than mine with only 8GB and a 250GB solid state drive was $400 in my area. MacBooks retain their value, at least older models do. The newer ones are just disposable junk. Unfortunately they don’t make good quality anymore, that is bad PR for Apple but true Apple lovers talk and this is what is being said.
@@hagenaarsfamily9794 It’s not worth it. To spend that much for a Macbook that has a very low resolution comparing with the Retina. I got a Macbook pro 2015 15 inch with 16 gb, i 7, 500 gb for $350 on Ebay. That’s a lot better than any Macbook below 2012.
@@murd777 well it was worth it to me. So to each his own. That is something that everyone has to decide for themselves, upgrade, buy a newer one or just buy a brand new one.
@@hagenaarsfamily9794 Yes, keep it for 30 more years and then you can sell it as an “Antique”