What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
Replaced the factory. Ssd in my 2013 macbook pro. Has speed up my 2012 imac. Nothing to complain. Much bigger than the stock ssd that came with the macbook. Double the ram with this kit.
Easy installation and verification procedure, takes less than 2 minuets. The 27 imac is easy to swap the mem providing you know how and now was half what i paid in 2014. De la, l'importance du pré-requis de l'os mentionné par timetec.
Save yourself money, get one of these and diy. I like a company that owns up to a mistake and is quick to deal with it. A+ customer service behind this product as well.
Cons
It is mind boggling how it cannot even run videos that are already on my macbook pro, as did the previous ram. Only one of the two 8gb ddr3 1600 ram chips works. Took out one ram and tried again the same issue. It is now the second time this ram has f... Read More
Highlights
Quality
This is the second time i have purchased ram for a imac product.
Value for money and good quality and accurate as describe.
128gb on my macbook air with the timetec 512 gb ssd.
Service was great because i received the product promptly.
Price
Exactly what i needed, very good price!
Shipping
If you only hold command+r or don't do anything, mac will default to its shipping os, say, yosemite recovery screen, which won'... Read More
Competitiveness
My 2015 macbook air now has a 500gb ssd.
Used on my wifes' imac to increase the amount of ram.
Had 2x4gb previously and installed 2x8gb kit on my imac (late 2013, 21.
I hope to not repeat this process again as it was a disappointment but not the fault of the ssd manufacturer.
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- This product had a total of 8,509 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 15 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Turns out monterey does a firmware check and will hang up the installer if the drive doesn’t pass
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The work around is to install monterey on a working apple drive it will update the firmware and then you can install monterey on nonapple ssd
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I hope to not repeat this process again as it was a disappointment but not the fault of the ssd manufacturer
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I tried setting it up with a usb high sierra installer flash drive as the instructions stated but the ssd would not show up in disk utility
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I made a new flash drive with catalina installer and it picked it up
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You need to do internet recovery on it then migrate old data
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Mac wont recognize with disk utility only in internet recovery mode
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This first time was about 15 minutes to up grade the ram the second was maybe 8 minutes total
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