My Problem

The Ole harddrive was absolutely filled - No place for change of MAC OS X Version

My Fix

The repair went very well - Did not use any Disk Cloning tools Just Disk Utolities and Time Machine

My Advice

Just format your new drive with MAC OS X Disk Utilities as a Bootable Partition - Do a restore from Time Machine to Your New Drive - Test it as You Boot Your new drive from a USB or Firewire atachment - Going Well OK - Swap Your Physical Drives

My Problem

Need for speed

My Fix

Straightforward

My Advice

Be careful with magnetized screws. Memory installation very simple, though it appears that speed may be slightly higher with the 4Gb chip in the lower bay. Instructions for installing hard drive enclosure excellent. Replacing 1Tb primary drive into optical bay enclosure, put an SSD into old primary space. DVD drive into external enclosure. System and application installation ongoing now.

My Problem

I recently purchased my very first Mac product, a Macbook Pro Duo Core in perfect condition. It came with just 2gigs of RAM, so I ordered 6gigs of RAM from iFixit.

My Fix

It was painless. I had no problem installing the RAM and the machine now runs much better.

My Advice

iFixit rocks. Plain and simple. The ordering process was smooth, the product shipped quickly and arrived perfectly packaged. Keep up the good work guy & gals! Looks like I'll be needing a battery soon and guess who I will buy it from!

My Problem

My new iMac 27" and 2008-early 13" MacBook weren't slow, but I knew they could be faster w/ triple the memory. My wife uses the MB a lot to work remotely, and I was shocked how much faster she could get more of her work done with the add'l RAM

My Fix

A-Okay--no problems whatsoever!

My Advice

More Ram!

My Problem

The only software issue was the Adobe CS5 which doesn't reinstall with code.

My Fix

I deactivated the software, put in the new HD, Time Machine did it thing for 3 hrs, and the internet automatically activated Adobe CS5.

My Advice

Have some epoxy around for those 3 fragile brackets in the battery area.

My Problem

As a developer and a photographer, I have been struggling for a while with the limitations of a four year old laptop compared to requirements of working with today's technology. I had the Apple max RAM of 4GB installed, and had already upgraded the original 250GB HD to 500GB a couple years ago. Still, I was looking at a new MacBook Pro in order to have enough resources for today's photo processing software and development tools.

Armed with a new 4GB RAM chip and a new 750GB hard drive, I spent most of a weekend breathing new life into my reliable but aging 2008 MacBook Pro.

My Fix

The RAM upgrade was dead simple. Just pop out one of the 2GB chips and insert the new 4GB chip and you are done. The iFixit guide is clear and makes a basic process even easier. This took only a few minutes. Button things up, power the system on and - bam - 50% more RAM.

The most time consuming part of the hard drive replacement is duplicating the current drive. I mounted the new drive in an external USB enclosure I already had on hand (about $40 from Amazon, if I remember correctly) in order to copy the entire contents of my current drive to the new one. Carbon Copy Cloner is great for this, although there are other tools as well. Be sure to format the new drive with a GUID partition type and copy all the files to make the external drive bootable.

When the drive finishes copying, test it out by rebooting and holding down the Option key to select the external drive as the boot drive. Verify everything is there.

After verifying the new drive contains all your data, iFixit hard drive replacement guide enables anyone that can use a screwdriver to open up the case and swap the hard drives.

After the drive swap and memory upgrade, it was time to upgrade to Lion (OS X 10.7), and then the inevitable chasing down of software build tool dependencies, but that's another story.

My Advice

The new system I want is always around $3k, which is not exactly pocket change these days. For a few hundred bucks I was able to extend the useful life of the last $3k I spent on my 2008 MacBook Pro. I've still got my eye on a new MacBook Pro, but for now I have "sharpened my saw" enough to efficiently continue cutting through my daily work load.

Don't be intimidated by technology or spend money on a new system if you don't really need one. Use the iFixit guides to get the most out of your current hardware.

My Problem

My MBP is 5 years old now and the 200GB drive that came with it just wasn't big enough anymore. The 750GB 7200RPM drive upgrade kit was jsut what I needed to extend the life of my machine. I also boosted the memory from 4GB to 6GB.

My Fix

Very well. I printed the guide and used it to store the various screws by each step as I went along. Everything went smooth. I had backed up my machine with Time Machine to our Time Capsule and the restore went without a hitch. I have not over 500GB of free space where I was struggling to keep 20-30GB of space before.

My Advice

If you are worried about doing surgery like this on your machine then review the guide and go for it! I was and it went great. The guide is clear and the tools that iFixit provides with the kit are just what you need to get the job done.

My Problem

I neded more ram becaus i am vorking a lot with diferent programs open

My Fix

I received the ram in my mailbox at only 6 days after i ordered from you :-)

The repair was fixed after 2 minutes :-))

My Advice

Only from your website

My Problem

my wife got a new 13" apple with wohw .. anything you can believe! now my old boy was not real satisfied 15" ok better ... but 120gigs sorry and these 2gb ram forget!!!

"So go on and make my day peter" ... he said = better hard disk, more ram and an optical drive? forget it ... we'll use this space for more power!

My Fix

The instructions were fantastic! thanx 4 this great chance to do it right! the pro tech base toolkit = the best i ever bought 4 this price!

I replaced the 120gb hd with the new one from ifixit. then i replaced the optical drive with with the ifixit optical bay data hard drive enclosure ... up to 6 gigs ram ... the 120gb in the enclosure ... after about 20 minutes ... ready!

My Advice

there is a little known problem on the optical bay side, cause the old hd is to hot. so i replaced the old hd on the optical enclosure with a ssd hd ... Now my old boy is sometimes real faster than his young brother on my wife's desk!!!

My Problem

I found my macbook increasingly inefficient when dealing with editing programs this was beginning to hamper my work.

My Fix

Easy-peezy... half an hour or so and it was all installed. I also brought a cheap HD enclosure to put the old HD in. I then plugged this in to the mac, it automatically rebooted from this and I was able to reformat the new internal HD and transfer all the data using Superduer.

My Advice

Compared to buying a new mac this upgrade saved me loads of dosh-not to mention the resources used in making a shiny new product. We shall see how it holds out but for now I am happy with my lighting fast machine. Make do and Mend- that is the watchword.