Introduction
Replacing the metal bottom case.
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Use your fingers to push both battery release tabs away from the battery and lift the battery out of the computer.
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Remove the four identical Phillips 3.4 mm screws from the memory door. These screws have 4 mm diameter heads rather than the 3 mm heads on the body screws.
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Lift the memory door up enough to get a grip on it, and slide it toward you, pulling it away from the casing.
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Remove the three Phillips screws in the battery compartment near the latch. Apple was nice enough to tilt these screws at a slight angle to make them easier to remove. On the A1261 these screws have 4 mm diameter heads rather than the 3 mm heads on the body screws.
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Remove the following six screws:
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Two 14.5 mm T6 Torx screws on either side of the RAM slot.
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Four 3.4 mm Phillips screws along the hinge.
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Rotate the computer 90 degrees and remove the two Phillips screws from the rear of the computer.
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Rotate the computer 90 degrees again and remove the four Phillips screws from the side of the computer.
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Lift up the back of the case and work your fingers along the sides, freeing the case as you go. Once you have freed the sides, you may need to rock the case up and down to free the front of the upper case.
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Disconnect the trackpad and keyboard ribbon cable from the logic board.
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Remove the upper case.
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Disconnect the orange SuperDrive ribbon cable from the logic board, removing tape as necessary.
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Remove the following three screws:
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Two black 4 mm T6 Torx screws on either side of the SuperDrive.
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One 8.7 mm silver (black in some models) T6 Torx screw at the back of the drive near the speaker.
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Use one hand to pull back the speaker cable and use your other hand to lift the optical drive up and out of the computer.
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Rotate the large display data cable to the left and disconnect the small right thermal sensor cable beneath.
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Remove the single black 4 mm T6 Torx screw securing the clear plastic shield over the right ambient light sensor.
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Lift the clear plastic shield off the right ambient light sensor.
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Remove the following twelve screws:
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Seven 6.5 mm T6 Torx screws.
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Two shanked 7.6 mm T6 Torx screws securing the battery connector to the lower case.
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Three 7.8 mm T6 Torx screws.
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Lift up the left side of the logic board and disconnect the multi-colored power connector from the bottom of the board.
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Grasp the logic board at the left side and at the thin section near the right fan, and rotate the logic board out of the lower case.
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If the right speaker assembly remains attached to the logic board, hold the logic board with one hand and slide the speaker up slightly to free it from the logic board.
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To properly reassemble your MacBook Pro, you'll have to clean off and replace the thermal compound from the three chips on the underside of the logic board. Use our Applying Thermal Paste Guide to prepare the processor and heat sink surfaces.
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Remove the single black 4 mm T6 Torx screw from the top right corner of the AirPort Extreme card.
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Remove the two 7.8 mm silver T6 Torx screws from the top left and bottom right corners of the left speaker assembly.
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Lift up on the left speaker assembly and rotate it slightly. It is not possible to entirely remove the speaker yet, as it is still connected to the left I/O board beneath.
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Disconnect the right speaker from the left I/O board. Make sure to pull on the top section of the white connector, not the cable itself.
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Peel up the iSight and inverter cables which are attached with a mild adhesive above the left fan.
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Lift the heat sink and attached fans out of the computer.
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Now is a good time to lean the fans back and clean out any dust bunnies from the grill. Also clean any dried thermal paste from the heat sink contact pads.
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Remove the ten silver T6 Torx screws securing the display (five on each side). On the right a 9.6 mm screw secures the display data cable, also on the left the screw closest to the inside is 9.6 mm. The others are 7.8 mm.
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Remove the two silver T6 Torx screws securing the gray metal retaining bracket to the right side of the hard drive.
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Lift the gray metal retaining bracket out of the computer.
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Lift the hard drive up from the right side and remove it from the computer. The Bluetooth assembly and orange ribbon cable are still attached to the hard drive and will come out with the hard drive.
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Peel up the orange tape covering the right thermal sensor.
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Use a spudger or your fingernail to pry the right thermal sensor off the lower case.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
Before upgrading to a larger HD, you'll want to "clone" your original HD using the donation-ware program "Carbon Copy Cloner" (http://www.bombich.com/). Put the new HD in an external case; clone the original; test the clone (by starting up with it), then take apart the MacBook to put the new HD in the MacBook, and the original in the external case for use as a backup, etc. (You can't just drag the contents of the original HD to the new HD, and expect it to work; not since the days of OS 9 and before.)
amiller770 -
Can I put more than two gigabytes of RAM in?
Noah Nsangou -
mine has 2g＊2＝4 gb ram in. you should be fine
on mac forum it suggested to put 4gb and a 2gb in a1261.
david -
I made the mistake of wanting to do a clean install of OS and start fresh after installing a SSD. Now I can't install most browsers on OSX Leopard. Does anyone know what is the most current version of OS I can put on this system? (disk or download) Can I get to Snow or Lion?
2006 17" MackBook Pro Model#A1151
2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo
Memory: Two 1GB 667 MHz
Hard Drive: Corsair Force GS: SSD 128GB
scannon -
You can install OS X 10.7 LION and no later version. Although LION runs ok with 2GB RAM it does help to get 1GB + 2GB = 3GB. Even if you install 2 X 4GB you will only utilize 3GB. Installing a SSD seems to make no difference since the SATA bus is only 1.5GB/s. A good 5400rpm disk is good enough. I even run BootCamp and Windows 7. Works fine. Not fast but fine. My A1212 refuses to die :-)
asle -
There seems to be some discrepancy about whether or not installing a SSD will help. See Phil's earlier comment from October 2015: there, *he* claims that having an SSD increases the load times significantly, (even though -- of course -- 1.5Gbps is not ideal)...
His quotation, (re-)cited integrally:
Just replaced my old HD with a Corsair Force LX SSD (which is SATA 1-3 compatible as required by this model) with success now my old 'outdated' laptop has super fast loading times and is postively flying faster than the speed of 'sound'. Thanks for the guide. Only problem I faced was replacing the top panel which after a few minutes of panic realised the rubber mounted Mic next to the left speaker had risen up when I had removed the top panel so after carefully pushing it back into place the panel fitted back how it should, so beware of this possible problem.
Phil - 10/07/2015
at0gjm -
Bonjour j'ai besoin de cette bactérie que dois-je faire ?
basile kouamé YAO -