{"id":3895,"date":"2014-04-07T03:43:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T08:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:47:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:47:21","slug":"mid-year-technology-project-2009-macbook-pro-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2014\/04\/07\/mid-year-technology-project-2009-macbook-pro-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid Year Technology project: 2009 MacBook Pro Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2009<\/p>\n

The majority of the weekend was taken up with birthday activities for the wife so I had to wait until Sunday evening to finally upgrade my old 2009 17 inch MacBook Pro with a new 1TB solid state drive (SSD). I love the design of the MacBooks of this era because the internal component are easily accessible. The upgrade took all of about 2 hours, and that included the data migration. I did the same for my 2007 MacBook Pro<\/a> a few months back but it was far more difficult to install the SSD due to the construction of the case.<\/p>\n

I decided it was time to upgrade since the price of SSDs are dropping as their capacity continues to increase. The new SSD will add a few more years to my old machine. Plus\u00a0 I need a decent laptop to practice my iOS app development training but I didn’t feel like dropping 2 grand plus for a new machine. It is amazing when a couple of hundred dollars will suffice by providing a substantial upgrade to an aging laptop. I snagged the Samsung 840 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive<\/a>\"\" from Amazon for slightly over 400 bucks and then picked up a SABRENT 2.5-Inch SATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure<\/a>\"\" for about 7 bucks to house the Samsung drive so I could transfer the data from the existing internal drive to the new SSD. For the data migration, I used a great program called Carbon Copy Cloner<\/a> to transfer the files and operating system from the old drive to the new one.<\/p>\n

The final outcome is that I feel like I have gotten a new laptop. The boot times and file access on the machine have dropped significantly. I maxed out the RAM a few years back so there is not much left that I can do to speed up the machine at this point<\/span>. I might swap out the internal DVD (SuperDrive) and replace it with a second SSD for storage, but that is just more for convenience, not performance. Hopefully, Apple won’t phase out support for this machine out when they release Yosemite (OS X 10.10) later this year because I really love this system now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had to wait until Sunday evening to finally upgrade my old 2009 17 inch MacBook Pro with a new 1TB solid state drive (SSD). I love the design of the MacBooks of this era because the internal component are easily accessible. The upgrade took all of about 2 hours, and that included the data migration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,335,2],"tags":[560,558,28,548,40,284,561,546,545,562,559],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-new-media","category-techtraining","category-technology","tag-10-10","tag-17-inch","tag-apple","tag-carbon-copy-cloner","tag-macbook","tag-os-x","tag-pro","tag-solid-state-drive","tag-ssd","tag-wwdc","tag-yosemite"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t