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by jlgaddis 4618 days ago
I bought a new ThinkPad W530 back in May along with an SSD and 4x8GB sticks of RAM to upgrade myself. I spent five minutes looking over the service manual and another five minutes doing the upgrades, thanks to the standard screws that Lenovo chose to use.

When I bought my last MBP, I had them (at the Apple Store) upgrade the RAM, which meant I had to wait around for 90 minutes for them to do it.
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drewrm 4618 days ago
To be fair, changing RAM and putting in an SSD in a unibody MBP would only take a few minutes if you did it yourself too. The only "tricky" piece was disconnecting the battery (not strictly necessary), and that only needed a triwing screwdriver.
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epistasis 4618 days ago
In my MBP manual it shows you how to replace the RAM, and the hard drive, and it uses standard screws.
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