Although the logic board on the new MacBook Pro is almost identical to its predecessor, the experiment did not go according to plan. In a true testament to the difficult ability to upgrade notebooks, the upgrade attempt went nowhere – and there may be a few reasons. It takes a lot of guts to get a device or piece of hardware worth over $ 1,000 and then risk destroying it for testing, but that’s what YouTuber Luke Miani did in his latest experiment. Tried to transplant the M2 chip and logic board from the latest 13-inch MacBook Pro to the 2020 M1 MacBook Pro. Needless to say, this will completely void the warranty on both devices, so if you feel adventurous, be sure to you have it in mind. The logical first step in performing such an upgrade is to simply replace the M1 chip on the older MacBook Pro with the new M2, but the processor is stuck and cannot be replaced. Miani had to exchange the entire logic board to attempt his experiment, so he removed it from the latest MacBook Pro. It was not easy to move it from the newest Mac to the older one – YouTuber had to deal with very tiny cable slots. After much hassle, however, Miani was able to install the new logic board inside the 13-inch MacBook Pro 2020. That brings us to the moment of truth – would the older MacBook Pro survive the upgrade to the new M2 chip? Unfortunately not. Despite many attempts, YouTuber could not boot the notebook. The screen remained black and the computer did not respond completely. This prompted Miani to replace Touch ID, and although he was able to exchange it, he could not yet start the Frankensteined MacBook Pro. Could not even put it in DFU recovery mode. apple According to the brave YouTuber, the reason behind the failure of his experiment could be that the 2022 MacBook Pro 13 has a slightly modified keyboard and touchpad. Although Miani did not mention it, there could be other reasons for this, such as problems recently discovered on the SSD drive in the new MacBook. As can be seen from some benchmarks, the new M2 MacBook Pro fails to impress when it comes to multitasking. This is because it uses up 256 GB of SSD space as virtual memory when needed, ie when it has exhausted all 8 GB of Apple Unified memory. Combined with slower SSD benchmarks than its predecessor, it seems that the M2 MacBook may not be the multitasking beast some might have hoped for. It’s hard to say if this played a role in the failed M1 to M2 upgrade, but it could. Although the experiment failed, it is definitely worth watching the effort, so we recommend you to watch the video above. It is a real pity that laptops these days often do not have the ability to upgrade. It’s no surprise that replacing the entire logical board from a new MacBook to an older one failed, but the ability to support some user upgrades and repairs would certainly be welcome.
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