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recently Apple discontinued its line of
white unibody MacBook in favor of the
new MacBook Airs
and if you're an owner of one of these
discontinued mac books you might be
thinking that it's high time you ditched
your machine in favor of something new
but let's not be too hasty these guys
have something that the new MacBook Airs
don't and that's expandability these
MacBooks can be upgraded to eight gigs
of ram and a whopping one terabyte
internal drive which is simply not the
case for the new MacBook Airs hi I'm MJ
with iFixit and today I'm going to show
you how to really get your money's worth
out of a white unibody MacBook by
upgrading both its hard drive and its
RAM as usual this video is a great
overview of the process but no self
repair person worth his or her salt
would ever perform a repair without
having a repair guide open in front of
them so I highly encourage you to browse
on over to I fix it calm and pulled the
repair guide for your specific machine
that all being said I'm going to get my
parts and tools together so I can get
started for this repair i'll need a
phillips double zero screwdriver a t6
Torx driver and a plastic spudger now
rather than getting these screwdrivers
separately you might go for something
like one of our big driver kids I'm
using the 54 piece but the twenty six
piece would do just as well you're also
going to need your replacement RAM and
hard drive depending on which one you're
upgrading to get started we're gonna
flip the computer over and begin to
remove the lower case by taking out all
eight Phillips screws that are holding
it in place
with all of the screws out we're going
to start to take off the lower case by
prying it up towards the rear of the
computer near the hinge and rotating it
towards you you kind of want to be
gentle down there you go
with the lower case off we get our first
glimpse of the inside of the MacBook the
first thing on our list to do is
disconnect the battery and that held in
place with a little cable here and we're
just going to use the flat end of our
spudger to kind of pry up one side and
then the other kind of rocking it up and
out of place
now that the battery is disconnected we
don't have to worry about any random
power surges when we're performing our
upgrades the first thing we're gonna do
is the RAM to get started you can use
your fingers or the pointy end of your
spudger to release the little locking
mechanism that's holding the RAM in
place and when it pops up like that you
can just pull it straight out when
you're reinserting it don't forget to
put it back in at an angle and then push
it down until it snaps into place with
the RAM done we're already halfway
through with our repair and we can move
on to the hard drive to get started with
that we just need to remove this bracket
which is held in place by two retaining
screws they're called retaining screws
because they're not going to come all
the way out with the bracket out the
hard drive should just lift right out of
the computer but be careful because it's
still attached to the logic board via
this ribbon cable
so I'll just disconnect that the last
thing we need to do is transfer these
retaining posts from our old hard drive
to our new hard drive and that's what
you're gonna need your t6 Torx bit for
of course you can find all of the parts
and tools for this and many other
repairs at ifixit.com and if you run
into any problems setting up your new
hard drive we made a video that will
walk you through the process and you can
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