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Posted on February 28, 2009 at 1:11 am

Upgrading to 8 Gig a MacBook Pro 17″

Long-tim friend and Mac-Guru Lux has just received his brand new MacBook Pro 17″ unibody and couldn’t stand booting anything but and 8 GB behemoth!

Here’s the complete upgrage process, taking the unibody MacBook Pro 17″ from the out-of-the-box 4 GB RAM up to full 8 GB!

[ for truth’s sake: Lux’s MBP 17 comes fully equipped with the top 2.93 GHz processor and top 320 GB @ 7200 RPM ]

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First screw…

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… putting them all together (tiny screws slip easily away)

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Off we go! Three bigger screws and a bunch of little ones and you can finally see what’s inside.

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And here we go… taking off the lid!

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A full top view, from top left, clockwise: SuperDrive DL, twin fan, hard disk 320 GB @ 7200 RPM (!) and (last but not least) the huge non-user-replaceable battery!

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… side view…

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The battery seal.

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Upper top, the RAM dual banks.

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Again the RAM banks.

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No RAM at all!

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Again, no RAM at all!

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two 4-Gigs RAM modules fitting!

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Closing the cover and…

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Here’s the result: “About this Mac” reveals amazing details!

Check all pictures here.

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