by Sometime around 2008 and with the advent of the first MacBook Air, Apple made the declarative statement that the end was in sight for optical drives built into its notebooks. At the time, the lack of an optical drive was a unique feature for the company’s new ultralight notebook, and the MacBook and MacBook Pro units of its day still unquestionably arrived with optical drives, but change was in the air.
Now, at the end of 2013, Apple definitely had a point in asserting that the optical drive could be done without—especially when a USB optical drive can now be purchased for under $35—and an incredibly fast and useful second hard drive can be installed in your Unibody MacBook Pro.
This is what this how-to covers:
Removing both the optical drive and hard drive in the MacBook Pro;
Placing the laptop’s hard drive in a bracket and installing it where the optical drive used to be;
Installing a new solid-state drive (SSD) in the laptop’s hard drive compartment, which makes the SSD as the primary drive.
With that in mind, it’s time to look into swapping out your Unibody MacBook Pro’s optical drive for a speedy hard drive. Here’s a list of items that you will need.
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