Unfortunately, you can’t upgrade all MacBooks because Apple changed the manufacturing process on its newest models. In theory, you can upgrade to 1 tb, however, it's pricey. They use PCI-E based flash storage, otherwise known as an SSD. However, I don't think that the new Macbook Pro's use a hard drive, as we understand it to be. I have the latest version of Mavericks installed on an SSD mounted in the disc-drive bay and a 1TB data drive mounted in the usual hard drive bay. The most radical option to expand your MacBook’s storage is to upgrade its SSD. (7,188 points) 5:27 PM in response to shehzadb03 Yes-you can upgrade.
This is my 1st Mac and I just got it out of curiosity due to the discount but am unfortunately finding it's use limited to web browsing and research/writing assignments for college. Ive done the disc-drive to 2nd hard drive swap out. I believe all Windows PCs come with 500GB as standard (mechanical) or 128GB SSD but expandable through another slot so Apple is just conning everyone really. The rMBP 2015 is more powerful than the XPS 13 and I figured I would just use it to take to college since it's 1kg lighter than my P25W.unfortunately, using VMs on it for college is proving annoying as I have XP, Linux but now need Win 7 for Solidworks/Inventor and I have only 38GB left for all that.Īpple is being Apple as usual and providing a sub standard amount of space for the money. I wanted originally to get the Dell XPS 13 but that would have cost me £600, plus I already have a much more powerful laptop than that - a 2yr old P25W. I got the 128GB rMBP for £300 and the 256GB was £200 more.