We explained yesterday how everything is tied to the serial number of your machine. However, with the company officially supporting at-home repairs, it initially appeared that we’d at least be able to upgrade a machine by replacing the entire board.īut no. The possibility of upgrading individual components disappeared when Apple started soldering everything to the main board. Later on, when SSD prices fell to more sensible levels, I swapped out the spinning metal drives for a couple of 1TB SSDs. I immediately upgraded the RAM to 16GB – a ten-minute task – and swapped out both the hard drive and optical drive for two 1TB hard drives. My final 17-inch MacBook Pro, for example, was bought with 8GB RAM and a 750GB hard drive. Sometimes I’d upgrade more than once during a machine’s lifetime.
Usually, I would spec out my machine with the best processor and GPU, and couple that to the bare-bones RAM and hard drive, then upgrade those components myself to avoid the Apple premium. In the old days, I would save money by doing my own MacBook upgrades. The Apple Self Service Repair program was extended to the M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models – but if you were hoping that would enable DIY MacBook upgrades, you’re out of luck.Īpple very deliberately and specifically prevents this, and that seems to me to be the wrong decision for customers and the MacBook maker alike … There was good news and bad news yesterday.
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