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I love my Retina MacBook Pro (Early 2015), it is probably the last MacBook with best keyboard and all the ports. I want to use it as long as I can. However, it is kind of slowing down on performance. I would like to know if upgrading the logic board (with 16gb ram instead of current 8gb), a new battery and a possible UPGRADE of better quality retina display will help, or is it worth that? I plan to install a new logic board, along with better thermal paste, new fan, Intel 760p SSD (for power consumption reasons), a better display from newer MacBook Pro if compatible and battery. What are your thoughts on it? Update: It seems that the capacity of battery has gone down to 95.7% (still good enough as per the numbers) however, the percentages go down significantly and even in Sleep mode, I’m losing so much battery power. I have reset the PRAM and SMC just now though.
While you can get a replacement logic board which has 16 GB of RAM they are getting hard to find! MacBook Pro 13" Retina (Early 2015) 2.7 GHz Logic BoardMacBook Pro 13" Retina (Early 2015) 2.9 GHz Logic Board I would clean the dust out using a soft paint brush and a can of can’ed air. Cleaning off the old thermal paste and applying a fresh coat also makes sense. Replacing the fan should only be needed if cleaning the dust build up didn’t help and the fan was making noise (bearing gone). A cheaper upgrade would be getting a new SSD. You only have a few choices as these systems use a custom Apple SSD. I would look at getting either a 480 GB or1 TB version MacBook Pro and MacBook Air (Mid 2013 to Early 2015) Blade SSD Upgrade Bundle. FYI if power consumption is an issue you’ll want to get the original Apple SSD. Review this great guide: The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs and here’s the drives Samsung SSPOLARIS PCIe 3.0 x4. Just like the logic board issue above they can be hard to find. There is no better display, it is what it is! The last issue you had was the battery. Lets get a handle on how it is performing. Install CoconutBattery and take a snapshot of the main window and paste it here for us to see Adding images to an existing question As far is it worth it? You’ll need to price out how much you are willing to spend. As I said, upgrade your SSD with the OWC (cheaper and available) for sure, think long and hard if you really need the 16 GB board. Most people go for a bigger SSD to off set the lack of RAM given the costs.
Hi there, Is it possible to upgrade a early 2015 13inch macbook pro with retina display to 2TB NVMe SSD?
Hello! Currently asking the same questions: running the early 2015 13” model, 2.7 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5, 128GB, experiencing a lot of lag, crashing and fan use in heavy processing software such as Fusion 360 and Streamlabs OBS. Which logic board is the right one to replace it with?
