Is it possible to take my 16mb RAM and 1TB hard drive from MacBook Pro 13 (early 2011) and put it in the new Macbook Pro with M1?
It is also about Apple saving money as it is cheaper than including extra sockets and cables which are less reliable and hinder the ever shrinking size of the laptop. Plus with soldered components Apple can more easily achieve higher transfer rates without having to worry about connectors that can affect performance that may also require extra circuitry to make them function at the same speeds. It is the same reason your iPhone and iPad don't have removable SSDs or memory. Apple is going for super slim and lightweight laptops which require this integration in order to achieve such slim and lightweight laptops. If you don't like it, then you are definitely purchasing the wrong computer.
Years ago computers such as the Commodore 64 were made where most of the chips on the motherboard were installed into sockets so that the chips could be easily removed for troubleshooting & repair. But very quickly the manufacturers moved to soldering many of the chips to the motherboard in order to save money (it removed the cost of the socket and the extra cost to insert the chip into the socket). Then in later production runs they ended up soldering all the chips to the motherboard (even the large 40 pin ones). It isn't always about a company trying to hinder you, although I'm sure Apple enjoys that as an added benefit since they clearly don't believe in the user's Right to Repair since Apple blocks independent repair shops from purchasing the required electronic components to actually repair a Logic Board.
I agree these laptops will become paper weights once their SSDs fail since it will not be cost effective to have the laptop repaired assuming the laptop is even still supported. Unfortunately society has become a disposable society where nothing is made to be repaired to keep it functioning like in the early 20th century and earlier. Some of it does have to do with complexity of newer items, but even in less complex items repairability is becoming a thing of the past.
FYI, you can remove the drive from your old laptop and use it externally on the new M1 laptop by using a USB to SATA Adapter, drive dock, or enclosure.
what happens if ssd will broke. Can it be replaced or you need to trash the motherboard?
Yes just don’t buy it. This is the only way to force them change their way. I will never buy a laptop where I don’t have the option to upgrade/replace my storage drive.
Excuse me my english is poor. You mean that it possible to boot from external drive. Is this so?
Since the late 2012 MacBook Pro, no unreliable RAM sockets have been used. Instead, the RAM components have been soldered directly to the board.
This choice was made for maximum reliability. Sockets, and the components in them, cause poorer reliability than direct soldering.
Once Apple was able to get drive reliability high enough, the chips that make up the SSD drive were eventually soldered down as well, also for reliability reasons.
Apple is not conspiring against you. In fact, they want you to have the most reliable Mac possible, so they have soldered down the components in all their portable computer lines.
It is in your best interest to have it so. But you MUST have a reliable backup scheme.
Ruadh2 wrote:
I presume my best reuse option is with the hard disk using a a 2.5” ssd enclosure with USB 3.0 port and a USB-C cable.
If that is the original Apple hard drive, then you may first want to check that the drive is not worn out or failing. You can do this by running DriveDx and posting the report here using the "Additional Text" icon which looks like a piece of paper. Usually if DriveDx reports any "Warnings" or "Failing" it means the drive is worn out or actually failing respectively.
It is best to get a good quality USB enclosure which also supports UASP since UASP provides much better performance for the drive and other USB devices (especially when mixing USB devices).
“Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports
The MBP M1 specs only specify support down to USB 3.1:
However, I assume USB 3.0 support is grandfathered into the standards?
Yes, the laptop will support USB standards from USB4 down to USB1.
the USB 3.0 dock promised the theoretical speed of 5Gbps
This is what USB 3.0 is capable of with the right combination of parts such as using an NVMe SSD, but any SATA based SSD drives will be limited to 500MB/s max while an old hard drive may be lucky to get 80MB/s. It is sometimes hard to separate marketing speak which make products look better & more attractive than what you will actually see.
Hi,
As far as I know, you can't upgrade RAM and storage on M1 MacBook Pro since RAM is on M1 chip and Storage is soldered on logic board.
Change harddrive on the new macbook pro M1
