early 2011

Hi all, I have an early 2011 15" Macbook pro, yes the one with the graphics issue ?. Keeping this one alive has been a real struggle, having Apple "repair" it on three different occasions before they accepted fault...anyways I'm having a new issue that is leaving me scratching my head. Several...

Hey folks, I have no idea what to try next so I'm turning to you all for your wisdom! Long story short: I'm trying to upgrade the HDD and RAM in an early-2011 macbook pro 13” and the OS won’t install to the new SSD. This is something I’ve done several times before without incident. This time...

Macbook Pro Retina Early 2015 (bought refurbished, have no warranties) It had 121 gb storage and I wanted to up it a bit; bought SSD from OWC https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc/aura-pro-x2 with 240 gb. Short story - the change didn't work, but computer still works with my old SSD, so no...

Hello, this is my firt time opened any/my mbp, am not expert, just curious and have some questions about the logic board and thermal paste. The model I was checking the tutorial from ifixit and cant find information about those components on circle symbols. Heat sink tutorial say only about...

Hey there. I've recently upgraded my old early 2011 Macbook Pro 15" with a Samsung SSD, in order to breathe new life into the machine. It's definitely more usable, but I'm still getting pretty bad UI lag, most noticeably on the Dock's magnification effect and with scrolling in...

Early 2011 Macbook Pro, macOS Sierra 10.12.6. Somehow a program called Clover got installed on my machine and I think it's causing some issues. I didn't install it (according to my memory), but I want it gone as it seems to be screwing around with a few things. I use my MBP in clamshell mode...

I own an early 2011 MBP 13". Config is 2.3GHz i5, 275GB SSD, 500GB HDD (no optical drive) and new battery and speakers. Though my machine runs absolutely smooth it's weight, display and speaker quality and overall ergonomics have started to bother me. The new machines are so much thinner and...

Hi everyone, I tried to upgrade my macbook pro (13-inch, Early 2011 - OSX Sierra 10.12.1, all specs below*) with an SSD Crucial MX300. It worked, but at some point (after few weeks) the system started to get stuck. The only way to recover the laptop was to issue an hard reboot each time this...

Background: Own a MacBook Pro 15" early 2011, had the logic board replaced for free when Apple was offering to replace them for flawed display issues earlier. It's failed again and won't boot, gives me similar display effects. My guess is logic board display is kaput again. I'd like to get a...

Hello there. I would really appreciate people's opinion here on whether or not I should make some upgrades to my MacBook Pro. I have an Early 2011 15 inch MacBook Pro. It's currently running the latest OS too. The battery no longer holds charge very well and it's been saying "replace soon" for...

So, I recently upgraded my Early '11 MBP to an SSD and optibay drive, and wanted to wipe my old hard drive to use as a networked drive for media on our Time Capsule. Well, I cannot get Disk Utility to recognize the drive using this USB SATA Cable...

Hi, Im thinking about changing the hard drive for my early 2011 MBP from a 320GB HDD to an SSD. My question is... can I simply get an SSD, replace it with the old HDD and use Time Machine to reinstall the OS? Or do I need to use the OS installation DVD and then can use time machine only after I...