22 Step-by-step Guides

A

AirPort/Bluetooth Board

AirPort/Bluetooth Cable

B

Battery

D

Display

F

Front Display Glass

H

Hard Drive Replacement

Hard Drive/IR Sensor Cable

Heat Sink

L

LCD

Left Fan

Left Speaker

Logic Board Replacement

Lower Case

M

MagSafe DC-In Board

Matte Finish LCD

Microphone

O

Optical Drive Cable

Optical Drive Replacement

R

RAM

Right Fan

S

Subwoofer & Right Speaker

U

Upper Case

1 Teardown

MacBook Pro 15" Unibody Mid 2010 Teardown

Support Questions

Parts

Tools

Troubleshooting ¶ 

Track down a number of hardware problems using the MacBook Pro 15" Unibody Troubleshooting page.

Upgrades ¶ 

There are a number of components in the MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2010 Unibody that can be cost-effectively upgraded.

  • RAM: The stock RAM included with the MacBook Pro 15" Unibody Mid 2009 can be easily upgraded to the maximum of 8 GB.
  • Hard Drive: 320 and 500 Gigabyte hard drives came standard with the MacBook Pro 15" Unibody Mid 2010. You can easily upgrade the drive to 750 GB.

Identification and Background ¶ 

The MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2010 Unibody was announced in April of 2010.

Use the laptop identification system to help you identify your machine. MacBooks tend to look very similar, and it's important to know which machine you have before ordering any replacement parts.

The MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2010 Unibody's case is composed of a single block of aluminum, following the same process of the MacBook Unibody and the MacBook Pro 17" Unibody. The Unibody revision also introduced some features that were never before seen on an Apple laptop: the inclusion of dual video cards (one for regular use, one for graphics intensive applications) the Mini DisplayPort (which replaced the full-size DVI display connector), and larger hard drive and RAM capacities.

Additional Information ¶