My Problem

My wife's mid 2009 13 in MBP was running slowly and she had used almost all of the space on a 250 gb drive. Installed the 750gb Seagate hard drive upgrade kit and 8gb PC3-8500 ram.

My Fix

Using the Guides provided on this website, I was able to replace the hard drive and ram chips in 40 minutes.

My Advice

A very easy job. The MBP is much faster and the wife is pleased.

My Problem

The fan was very noisy and i was afraid due to friction, the fan produce dust and spoil my macbook pro by overheating.

I have taken the occasion to upgrade the memory.

My Fix

The guides are wonderful and complete. After acclimatisation of the parts (it was a cold day when it has been delivered) I have made the replacement and upgrade in less then a half hour.

The delivery was really fast, less then 3 days to get it at my home in Belgium, and with Fedex, easy to follow the shipping.

My Advice

Don't be afraid, the guides are straight forward.

My Problem

iPhoto library problem resolved with new hard drive

added RAM while the case was open.

My Fix

The repair went extremely well with a couple of minor issues. Actually easier than the guide would suggest for my mid-2009 15 inch Unibody MacBook Pro. First of all using the upgrade kit and SuperDuper was fantastic. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Watch the YouTube video. MJ is nerdy hot as a bonus.

My Advice

Issues: The replacement guide indicates you need to remove the battery and need to use a 5 point star style driver that isn't provided in the upgrade kit. Should probably provide this screwdriver.

Guide then suggests using a straight blade screwdriver (wedged into the screw). Ghetto. Don't do it. Good way to ruin a screw and driver. I don't know if this applies to all similar machines, but I saw no physical reason to remove the battery. Ignored that step and just replaced the drive with no issues whatsoever. If there is another reason to remove the battery (i.e. I am going to fry something if I don't) it should probably be explained in the guide. I am relatively handy, but I found this replacement easier than anticipated.

My Problem

I edit video- so i was hoping to install more RAM to smooth the workflow.

My Fix

Easy, fast and awesome!

My Advice

I guess I was a little surprised when I didn't notice much of a difference. I still have some lag in my playback w/ my editing software. But, there is somewhat of a difference. Rest assured, I have more RAM so I feel confident.

My Problem

My Mac Mini was too slow with thousands of Music and photos

My Fix

Repair was as easy as describe in the iFixit website

My Advice

Just follow the instruction at iFixit.com and voila you will be done in minutes

My Problem

I simply needed just a little more Storage - HDD and RAM - and a little more speed.

My Fix

Smooth like silk. The replacement took me about 15 Minutes or so - restoring the backup was a little tricky. I have a Macmini with the Timemachine-Function enabled. Started the MBP with DVD and let Timemachine do it's job. Unfortunately it didn't work out 100% like with a restore I remember a couple of years ago. So I opened the MBP again, installed the old HDD, booted, connected a firewire-HDD with appropriate capacity, let Timemachine do the full backup, shut it down, replaced the HDD, booted from DVD with the firewire-HDD connected, let Timemachine do it's job, and it did it well this time.

Resumè: This MBP is performing significantly better AGAIN, the HDD is really fast and the MBP is no longer running out of RAM with VM and other applications running concurrently on the platform. Definitely worth the investment - I expect this machine to run for the next four years.

My Advice

Be careful with Timemachine when implemented as a network-resource instead of as a directly connected resource. I don't know why the additionally installed applications weren't copied to the system. I haven't missed the checkbox - trust me. However, luckily enough I had another external drive I could utilize to do complete, fresh backup from which I was able to do a complete restore.

My Problem

basic 2009 mac book pro. great and reliable laptop. you can always speed things up. so i did :D

My Fix

right when i got it in the mail, i opened up the package and did a quick install and took it straight to work. took about 5 minutes. simple.

My Advice

take the time to remember where the screws go so that you dont wear the thread out.

My Problem

Memory was full and mac became slow

My Fix

Very smooth, very easy

My Advice

Very happy, 10 times faster

My Problem

My daughter went away to college this year. When I saw her at Thanksgiving, she said her Macbook wouldn't take CD's or DVD's anymore. I took it apart a little to investigate, and found a bobby pin in the drive. When she came home for Christmas, I googled apple parts, and was delighted to find ifixit, and I ordered a new drive. I also ordered more RAM since I thought it would extend the useful life of the machine.

My Fix

I used the online guide in slide show mode, and it was great. I didn't know what a spudger was, but the pictures showed me what I had to do. I swapped out the drives and installed the new RAM, and looked like Super Dad to my daughter.

My Advice

I have learned the hard way that a laptop bag should not also be used to store personal appearance accessories. But if you should happen to make that mistake, the people at ifixit have your part, and have the guides to make the repair a snap. Kudos to ifixit, and thank you for being there when I needed you.

My Problem

I'm using Windows 7 under Parallels professionally and in my spare time I use Photoshop/Aperture working on 25Mb pictures from my Canon 5D II. And I'm too lazy to close programs...

My Fix

5 minute job, really. MacBook is sooo much snappier with all my programs running simultaneously. What a treat!

My Advice

RAM is the most important speed accelerator in your computer. Don't hesitate to upgrade!