After experiencing the speed offered by the new Retina MacBook Pro — but needing to return the review unit — Jeff Carlson decided to put a solid-state drive into his sluggish MacBook Pro. But because ...

Don't use the optical drive in your Unibody MacBook Pro anymore? Put that space in your laptop to better use by replacing the optical drive with a hard drive or SSD.

Dan Frakes takes apart his out-of-warranty MacBook Pro and installs a larger, faster, and more efficient hard drive.

Replacing a MacBook battery is tricky depending on the model you have. Here’s everything you need to know about battery replacements in Apple’s laptops.

YouTube/Matt Gonzalez After that, I simply unscrewed the bottom of my MacBook Pro, took the old hard drive out, put the SSD in, and screwed the lid back on (check out a good YouTube tutorial here).

It's a fact that no one uses optical drives anymore and so why not replace the one in your late-model MBP with something a bit more useful like an SSD. It doesn't really seem that hard as long you ...

First, you will need an OWC Aura Pro Express SSD drive, your MacBook Air, an external USB 2.0 backup drive, and pentalobe and T5 torx drivers (included with the Aura Pro Express).

Apple's MacBook Pro has only one hard-drive slot, but you can replace the optical drive with a bracket to hold another hard drive, and in doing so put a small and cheaper SSD in for a boot drive ...

All of the ports are on the left side of the laptop, with the optical drive slot on the right. Like all current MacBook Pro models, the 17-inch version features Apple’s large, multitouch trackpad.

The model Apple sent to TechCrunch for review purposes is a 16-inch M4 Pro with a 14-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 48GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage. The laptop runs $3,649 as configured.

The iPad serves as a versatile replacement for my MacBook, especially with apps like OneDrive and Photoshop. Notability's organization features and PDF editing make it a preferred note-taking app ...