2010 MacBook Pro Upgrade in 2017 

Despite working on that video for a while and also watching the finished master file twice before uploading I never noticed.

LOL you're good :)

Didn't know that, I'll try it sometime but honestly I don't think there will be a huge improvement. It's not the most amazing SSD and it's stuck on SATA2 speeds because of the age of the laptop.

TechnoBabble the first 10-20 seconds shouldn’t really be counted anyways. It had to search for a operating system to boot off of at first, which is why it took a little bit for the Apple logo to show up.

Resetting the nvram is only one part of « the three steps trick » in such situation :-) Given the age of the machine, I bet resetting as well the SMC is a must. And last but not least, in the system preferences, the whole startup speed is improved when telling macOS which drive it should seek first when powered on. Hence solving that seek time issue described in the previous comment :-) Since it was your first « surgery » on a Mac you most likely didn’t knew that macOS is able to boot up from external support (usb drives, SD cards). I’m saying this because having swapped hdd & sdd before cloning the system might have been faster this way. Nice video anyway !

can you use 16gb

Taki Clinton Harness hell yeah old macbook pro is badass

If you can get a hold of a donor board with a working Geforce 320m I'm sure it could be done, since the GPU isn't integrated directly on the CPU package or die.

No problem, if you're not doing anything intensive laptops like these are definitely still worth getting for the right price.

What is the right price? Price range Seattle and Portland are $500 to $800

eshop.macsales.com/upgrades/

What does the enable trim do?

It should definitely be powered off when replacing or adding any components. Doing so while the computer is on will result in it immediately crashing with most components or even killing components depending on the computer.

TechnoBabble yeah preciate it u just save me heartache 💯💯

TechnoBabble another question, I’m Tryna find ram for the mid 2010 but people keep sayin “13 inch ram isn’t compatible with ram for the 15 inch” what’s the difference?

EtFilms crucial mx500

@@SheLuvsWild Why not an Mercury Electra or a Samsung 860 and whats the max amount of TB

Sorry about the late reply, you need to clone your existing drive using an external 2.5" hard drive enclosure.

You shouldn't need to format it at all before installing it, but you will need another Mac to make a USB installer for MacOS.

You dont need two macs to upgrade harddrive with ssd. And you dont need to make a usb installer either. You need a usb enclosure, ssd drive, small Phillips, torks T-6.

cost me about 80$ for the 500gb SSD, and 15$ for tools to safely open the mac. also i' should have replaced my SATA cable too because thats the real culprit in a slow mac.

fraz ad hello high sierra works like a charm on macbook pro mid 2010, but it cant be upgraded to mojave

Marcos Ridao I bought one for 160 400 is too much for this model

Only specific models of these old Macbook Pros can actually support 16gb of RAM, this one doesn't. And besides, the person using it would have no use for it, in fact they probably didn't even need the upgrade to 8gb.

hi, mine is mid 2010 macbook pro 15 inch, does it support 8G *2 = 16G? thanks so much

@@john8510 have you tried it yet?

@@officialtjlp I have not. Maybe upgrade the book is worth better

@@johnchow2702 Actually, just found out it does work. eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/8566DDR3S16P/ "Improved the performance of my MacBook Pro" The guy states he has a 15 inch mid 2010.

Fabiana Bing You can't. 99% of laptops can have their gpu upgraded cause it's in the motherboard

You can its just expensive.. eGPU like an Akitio Node and a graphics card like a 1080 will run you a good $1400 alone. You can use $1400 to build a pc or get a newer 2017 macbook.

Your in luck check out Nvidias new beta for MacBooks and old laptops it’s a program that lets old laptops play high end games

For browsing and office apps.

That entirely depends on what you're trying to do. If your project needs more RAM then upgrading your RAM might help, but if the bottleneck is entirely to do with processing power (which for Pro Tools it probably is) then no this upgrade won't help you at all.

I would get a 15" quad core i7 2.7 or 2.66 and upgrade that. The mid 2012 MD104LL/A has usb 3.0 and is still a nice machine in 2019. You can turn our older mackbook into a Chrome os system.

You should be able to buy them online like Newegg and Amazon :)

That completely depends on the system your running and the type of applications you're running.

Would the 16 gigs help in creating little movies in iMovie? Or playing with pictures in photoshop? The one I'm getting is slightly different in that instead of 2.4 I have 2.6

if the laptop that you are getting is the same model as this one then I don't think that you can upgrade to 16gb of RAM. I believe the max is 8gb, but even if you could the rest of the system is too slow for any serious video editing, so more RAM wouldn't help.

mine is mid 2009 and 8 was the max ram

Grandma Adelaide the 2010 unibody can do 16gb ram you just have to upgrade hdd to sdd and purchase a compatible ram chip and ssd. Go to OWC on google and they sell all Mac parts and have compatible parts to make a 09-10 work like a 17. Also only 1066mhz will work not the 1333 one

You can't run 16gb unless your model's memory controller supports it, this one does not. It supports a max of 8gb total.

You are right if you follow the official spec. The official claim that 13" is 8GB (2x4GB) max which is the same as the 15" and 17" model. But in fact, the Nvidia Geforce 320m in Macbook Pro 2010 13" can run in 16GB of ram (2x8GB 1066MHz) stably. However for 15" and 17" was using intel chipset and result was only 8GB max. My wife's MacBook Pro 2010 is running in 2GB(1066MHz) + 8GB (whatever speed with 16 chips, DDR3 1.5v) in High Sierra. I hope my experience can help anyone who would like to upgrade the MacBook and make less electronic rubbish for the Earth. And I should say, really thanks TechnoBabble for the great video

I'd be very grateful if you could steer this owner of an early 2010 MBP still running 10.6.8, toward more information on upgrading; keeping it out of the trash is a mutual desire, cheers-

50/50 Most of that is Internet connection But if ur whole system hickups then yes

You can download high sierra from the App Store

Yes that's true with a standard hard drive and only 4GB Ram. I've upgraded my mid 2010 with an SSD & 8GB Ram and it runs High Sierra fine.

you can format it by turning off computer then holding command +r to turn it on then you can reinstall the new update

Remember they also boot and run chrome os.

You don't need to clone the drive, but you do need to create an installer on a USB flash drive using a Mac, so do that before swapping out the drive.

Just hook up new ssd into a usb enclosure, plug it in. Enable. Go to disk utility. Select the external ssd and erase, format mac os extended journaled. The go to app store and download OS , after downloading continue and select install drive as external ssd. Once install is done you can swap drive.

There's nothing special about the parts I used. Just some older Mac compatible RAM (you'll want to search for YOUR specific model if you're doing something like this) and any SATA SSD. It didn't feel necessary to list the parts because you don't need anything in particular, I will in the future though.

To the BIOS it's the same drive as the old hard drive. Same position in the boot menu, same assigned address, same partitions and install of MacOS. There's nothing it would have to "look for".

I suggest upgrade your SSD first. If you want to work multitask, pts, lightroom etc... 8gb ram should be enough (or even 16gb). Otherwise a 4gb of ram works fine. I don't know why but I prefer El Capitan or Sierra. That High sister is not good :))

4g ram for most 13". Yes i would go with 16gb if possible.

Not sure what that has to do with anything in the video but I did enable trim afterwards on the machine while I was setting up some more stuff for the owner.

Very unlikely, your big bottleneck on a machine like this for any sort of content creation would be the CPU and GPU, I edit my 4k video off of a mechanical hard drive, though more RAM can certainly help if you're running out. 1080p video might be alright in iMovie or Final Cut given the very good optimization those pieces of software might have.

@@TechnoBabble thanks for your reply. I'm upgrading the SSD drive and adding RAM for under $200 dollars, and I'll see this upgrade give me.👍

TechnoBabble so when i update high ssd and ram i can edit 4k video?