- #17 MACBOOK PRO EARLY 2009 UPGRADES INSTALL#
- #17 MACBOOK PRO EARLY 2009 UPGRADES DRIVER#
- #17 MACBOOK PRO EARLY 2009 UPGRADES UPGRADE#
- #17 MACBOOK PRO EARLY 2009 UPGRADES PC#
So what card you pick will depend on what your use will be. Pro OWC would be selling a kit for it the integrated Intel video card transfer to External drive in a variety of Macs: //. I use mine for video work which will use the graphic card heavily when scrubbing and rendering. What you decide will depend on what you plan to do with your MP. This is an interesting read on one of the AMD R9 series cards.
#17 MACBOOK PRO EARLY 2009 UPGRADES DRIVER#
I did not want to deal with having to go through driver updating every time the OS updated. I picked the card I have because at the time that was the beefiest card I could get that would run on native OS X drivers. I like Nvidia cards based mostly on my experience using them in PCs. That is the card I use to run my two monitors.Īctually I have no experience with the R9 280X card. The other is a Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 780 with 3GB card that is not flashed. One is the original GT 120 mac card that I do not use unless I need to see the boot screen.
When I started my journey to acquire a cMP I did a ton of reading to decide what I wanted. Built-to-order options included a faster 2.93 GHz processor, up to 8 GB of RAM, a 320 GB 7200 RPM hard drive, and 128 or 256 GB solid-state drives. It is a very long series of posts about graphic cards for the cMP line. The MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2009) shipped in a single comfiguration, with a 2.66 GHz processor, 4 GB of RAM and a 320 GB hard drive, for 2,799.
It has two SSD drives - one for OS X and one that is used as a cache drive for Adobe plus a 1TB HDD for storage.įor more information on graphic cards I would suggest you check out the link I posted above. What is the best way to recover a version of OS X. I have a iMac from 2007 with Maverick running, and a old Macbook with 10.7. If I start with command + r the book is still starting in Windows8.
#17 MACBOOK PRO EARLY 2009 UPGRADES INSTALL#
There is Windows 8 installed, but I would like to install the OSX again. It is a long set of post starting back in 2012 but when I was putting together my MP and needed information it was very helpful.Īs stated in post #5 above, I have an upgraded 2009 MP. I just bought a used Macbook Pro 17 inch form early 2009.
#17 MACBOOK PRO EARLY 2009 UPGRADES PC#
I am not sure how well PC cards will work with a 2009 but I have put a link below that will give you more information.
#17 MACBOOK PRO EARLY 2009 UPGRADES UPGRADE#
I chose to upgrade my 2009 to a 2010 to keep it eligible for OS upgrades a bit longer. I use my MP for video editing using Adobe CC apps. I have not found a permanent fix for it but the issue started with Sierra. If the MP goes to sleep and then wakes any video it plays is jerky. The only quirk I have seen has to do with Sierra. I also keep the original GT120 in the MP but I do not attach a monitor unless I need to see the boot screen. I currently use a PC video card that has not been flashed which means no boot screen. The 2009 MBP is a shining reminder of what excellence used to be.I have a 2009/2010 Mac Pro (the firmware has been upgraded to make it "think" it is a 2010). This formerly effusively evangelical Apple customer, developer, and shareholder is that disgusted and dispirited with the state of Mac now. Heck, I may even buy a Dell, after swearing off them emphatically and in detail back in the 1990s. When it dies, if Apple are still on their current trajectory, I'll get a laptop I can run Linux on, for the first time in ten years. I'm quite aware that this puppy is well beyond its design life and critical/non-replaceable parts could fail at any moment. This is the kind of excellence Apple used to routinely do, and sell to repeat customers, before Sir Jony was given his head on his "thinner, lighter, flimsier, more disposable" anorexic fetish. Amazing keyboard compared to the newer Apple keyboards. It gave me a major scare 9 months ago when its inbuilt WiFi died, but a USB dongle has it back on the air. I've still got my 2009 MBP, same CPU/screen with DGPU.
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