I was buying parts of a macbook pro 13" what are all the essential parts, wires perhaps for it to be fully functional (without the fan/ keyboard/ mouse and speakers. Thank you

I was making an investigation into what I needed to make a bit of a bit of a hybrid between my musical inteface and the mac book pro 13...I looking for the macbook to just hold and processes the application i require to perform live music, in this case the software max msp. I was looking for peoples opinions on what risks im taking just powering the motherboard of the model and have people had experience of reconstructing the mashine, what sort of things did they discover.
Thank you very much for reading, I will very very much  appreciate any reponce from people
Joel

You've got it right. The SSD can be upgraded, though it's expensive and potentially voids the warranty. The RAM can't be upgraded at all.
Can you return it? If not, your only option may be to sell it.

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