2tb internal drive macbook pro?
I have a macbook pro 13 inch from spring 2010
Will this be able to handle a 2tb internal hard drive? it is 3.5"
also can i put in 16gb of ram?
And is it possible to buy an extended battery like 12 cell or something, so my mac has double the life?
Thanks soo Much!!
The only batteries are those provided by Apple or Newertech.com and other third-party vendors you can google. You won't find anything with so-called extended life exceeding more than a few percent. Apple's laptop batteries are not quite like the cheap stuff made for PC laptops.
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mbltccmbp:~ trevorcobb$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
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0: GUID_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk0
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2: Apple_CoreStorage 501.8 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 124.0 GB disk0s4
5: Microsoft Basic Data 115.5 GB disk0s5
6: Linux Swap 8.5 GB disk0s6
/dev/disk1
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3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
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Password:
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gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
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0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
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40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 980102336 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
980511976 262144 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
980774120 792
980774912 242186240 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1222961152 225603584 5 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1448564736 16582656 6 GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
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