Macbook HD on a Macbook Pro
I'm going to purchase a Macbook Pro. I currently have a Macbook. I like to know if I can take the Macbook hard drive and simply put it inside a Macbook Pro with all its data/apps/content intact and use it without any other changes.
I hate to go thru the process of reinstalling apps, copying over the current content from Macbook manually. But, wondering if the HD move will work.
Thanks in advance.
Well, that's not entirely true. The hard drives in MacBooks and MacBooks Pros are interchangeable physically and electronically, i.e., they both use identical SATA hard drives. So, you could certainly take the hard drive out of your MacBook and put it in your MacBook Pro.
However, I'm guessing that a hard drive from a MacBook won't boot a MacBook Pro because the other hardware is different (e.g., motherboard chipset, GPU, etc). The most you could hope for is to connect the drive to the MBP (in an external case, via Firewire host, etc.) and copy your files and applications that way.
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