MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?
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wrote on 17 Jan 2021, 21:33 last edited by
Oh, that doesn't look so complicated indeed.
Maybe it's just the newer models were it is a real PITA. As far as I remember everything is glued together and you have to work with heat to take it apart.
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@klaus nah. Piece of cake if you have the right screwdrivers.
Well, what I meant was a recommendation on what battery seller. There are a zillion of them!
wrote on 17 Jan 2021, 21:35 last edited by@mik said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
Well, what I meant was a recommendation on what battery seller. There are a zillion of them!
Go with OWC. They've been in the Mac business for decades and they have great tech support. Any problems, they'll talk you through it. Can't recommend highly enough. You might pay $10 more, but....
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wrote on 17 Jan 2021, 21:35 last edited by
Also, if the battery swelled, you might want to chat with them and see if this is a fatal error.
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@mik said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
Well, what I meant was a recommendation on what battery seller. There are a zillion of them!
Go with OWC. They've been in the Mac business for decades and they have great tech support. Any problems, they'll talk you through it. Can't recommend highly enough. You might pay $10 more, but....
wrote on 18 Jan 2021, 01:57 last edited by@george-k said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
@mik said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
Well, what I meant was a recommendation on what battery seller. There are a zillion of them!
Go with OWC. They've been in the Mac business for decades and they have great tech support. Any problems, they'll talk you through it. Can't recommend highly enough. You might pay $10 more, but....
On George's recommendation and @Axtremus , I used OWC to purchase some stuff. Worked out really well.
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@george-k said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
@mik said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
Well, what I meant was a recommendation on what battery seller. There are a zillion of them!
Go with OWC. They've been in the Mac business for decades and they have great tech support. Any problems, they'll talk you through it. Can't recommend highly enough. You might pay $10 more, but....
On George's recommendation and @Axtremus , I used OWC to purchase some stuff. Worked out really well.
wrote on 18 Jan 2021, 02:15 last edited by@taiwan_girl I have three OWC products:
- A 4-bay thunderbolt enclosure which houses my (two) backup drives, my media for music and my media for video.
- A thunderbolt external docking bay which houses my boot drive (SSD) and another backup (yeah another backup)
- A USB/thunderbolt external enclosure that's housing a spare SSD. Don't know what I'll do with that in the future.
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Hey @George-K do you have any experience whether an upgrade of a 2014 fusion drive with a modern SSD will make a noticeable difference?
wrote on 18 Jan 2021, 14:29 last edited by@klaus said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
Hey @George-K do you have any experience whether an upgrade of a 2014 fusion drive with a modern SSD will make a noticeable difference?
No clue. But, I will say that I boot from an external 2TB SSD connected via thunderbolt to my 2014 iMac. Works perfectly.
OWC has some videos on installing a SSD into a 2014 iMac. It's an adventure I didn't feel like undertaking, particularly because I'm going to be selling this Mac toward the end of the year (when the Apple Silicon iMac comes out). The skill level is "advanced, professional installation recommended."
https://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/imac_27in5k_14late_hdd/
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@klaus said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
Hey @George-K do you have any experience whether an upgrade of a 2014 fusion drive with a modern SSD will make a noticeable difference?
No clue. But, I will say that I boot from an external 2TB SSD connected via thunderbolt to my 2014 iMac. Works perfectly.
OWC has some videos on installing a SSD into a 2014 iMac. It's an adventure I didn't feel like undertaking, particularly because I'm going to be selling this Mac toward the end of the year (when the Apple Silicon iMac comes out). The skill level is "advanced, professional installation recommended."
https://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/imac_27in5k_14late_hdd/
wrote on 18 Jan 2021, 15:21 last edited by@george-k said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
@klaus said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
Hey @George-K do you have any experience whether an upgrade of a 2014 fusion drive with a modern SSD will make a noticeable difference?
No clue. But, I will say that I boot from an external 2TB SSD connected via thunderbolt to my 2014 iMac. Works perfectly.
OWC has some videos on installing a SSD into a 2014 iMac. It's an adventure I didn't feel like undertaking, particularly because I'm going to be selling this Mac toward the end of the year (when the Apple Silicon iMac comes out). The skill level is "advanced, professional installation recommended."
https://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/imac_27in5k_14late_hdd/
I did the same (per Mr. Georges recommendation 555). For my computer, made a big big difference. Used to take looooooong time to get started and any applications took a loooooong to time load and use. Now that everything is on the solid drive, almost like a new computer.
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@klaus said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
Hey @George-K do you have any experience whether an upgrade of a 2014 fusion drive with a modern SSD will make a noticeable difference?
No clue. But, I will say that I boot from an external 2TB SSD connected via thunderbolt to my 2014 iMac. Works perfectly.
OWC has some videos on installing a SSD into a 2014 iMac. It's an adventure I didn't feel like undertaking, particularly because I'm going to be selling this Mac toward the end of the year (when the Apple Silicon iMac comes out). The skill level is "advanced, professional installation recommended."
https://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/imac_27in5k_14late_hdd/
wrote on 19 Jan 2021, 13:06 last edited by@george-k said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
But, I will say that I boot from an external 2TB SSD connected via thunderbolt to my 2014 iMac.
How did you connect it via Thunderbolt? Usually, external SSDs only feature USB or USB-C?
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@george-k said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
But, I will say that I boot from an external 2TB SSD connected via thunderbolt to my 2014 iMac.
How did you connect it via Thunderbolt? Usually, external SSDs only feature USB or USB-C?
wrote on 19 Jan 2021, 13:18 last edited by@klaus said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
How did you connect it via Thunderbolt?
I have two options: I have a 4 bay thunderbolt enclosure that will take a 2.5 inch SATA drive (currently it's populated with spinning drives I use for media (
pr0nmovies and music) and backups (two drives for backup - 1 time machine, one Carbon Copy Cloner).However, I use this for easy swap-ability. I don't think I paid this much for it, however. I bought it in 2014.
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wrote on 19 Jan 2021, 13:22 last edited by
Other World Computing also has this:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/External-Enclosures/2.5-Inch-Drives-HD-SSD
But this is what I use for my 4 bay enclosure:
Here's something else that might pique your fancy:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/envoy-express/thunderbolt-3
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Other World Computing also has this:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/External-Enclosures/2.5-Inch-Drives-HD-SSD
But this is what I use for my 4 bay enclosure:
Here's something else that might pique your fancy:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/envoy-express/thunderbolt-3
wrote on 19 Jan 2021, 13:27 last edited by@george-k said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
Here's something else that might pique your fancy:
Wait, but that's a TB3 connector, no? AFAIK, you can't connect a TB3 device to a TB2 port. Or can you?
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@george-k said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
Here's something else that might pique your fancy:
Wait, but that's a TB3 connector, no? AFAIK, you can't connect a TB3 device to a TB2 port. Or can you?
wrote on 19 Jan 2021, 13:37 last edited by@klaus said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
Wait, but that's a TB3 connector, no? AFAIK, you can't connect a TB3 device to a TB2 port. Or can you?
I think that’s right. Apple sells an adaptor that converts a female Thunderbolt 3 port to a female Thunderbolt 2 port, but none that converts the other way round. If you Mac has only Thunderbolt 2 ports, you will need to start with an enclosure that supports Thunderbolt 2 (or covert to USB).
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wrote on 19 Jan 2021, 13:57 last edited by George K
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEL2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-to-thunderbolt-2-adapter
Here's the adapter.
TB3 is the male end and TB2 is the female end. Hook that dock up to a TB2 cable with male at both ends and you should be good, no?
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https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEL2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-to-thunderbolt-2-adapter
Here's the adapter.
TB3 is the male end and TB2 is the female end. Hook that dock up to a TB2 cable with male at both ends and you should be good, no?
wrote on 19 Jan 2021, 14:17 last edited by@george-k said in MacBook Battery Replacement - any recommendations?:
Hook that dock up to a TB2 cable with male at both ends
That sounds rather gay. Will it work? I don't know.
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wrote on 19 Jan 2021, 16:54 last edited by
Hmm ... now that I think about it the second time, yeah, I think it should work. Heck, I think I have that TB3/TB2 adapter. I will go try it out later today.
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wrote on 6 Feb 2021, 13:35 last edited by
Well, I tested the combo chain with Thunderbolt 3 port connected to a "Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter" to a Thunderbolt 2 cable to a Thunderbolt 2 hard drive.
It works fine. With that configuration I copied 25 GB of data onto that Thunderbolt 2 hard drive without incident. It's a spinning hard drive too using power drawn only from the Thunderbolt 3 port.
