The next morning, it was still stuck at 50 % in the startup process (after more than 12 hours of booting).

So I tried again in the evening (by pressing the start button twice, first long press to shut down, then to boot) and let the laptop booting for the whole night. I waited 6 hours before I tried to reboot after reading from the internet that Apple MacBook is smart enough to resume the update or upgrade anywhere it left off. It stuck at the boot screen with (approximately) 50 % in progress forever.

The MacBook Pro was not able to boot correctly. When I saw the laptop was shut down (it was actually in the process of rebooting), I pressed the start button to turn the laptop on. Everything seemed normal until this point where my stupidity changed the course of the event. I walked away for some drinks and came back. I clicked “upgrade” from the App Store and waited for the laptop to restart. I was supposed to upgrade from OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 to the new OS X El Capitan 10.11.3.

The incident happened on my unlucky Friday morning, 29 January 2016, where there were some updates available for my six-year-old MacBook Pro. It got my attention because it is the cheapest.Īpple MacBook is idiot-proof. I did my shopping online and found the Kingston V300 SSD. Since I can no longer access the Macintosh HD, the default hard disk of my Macbook Pro, I decided to replace it.Īfter reading articles and watching videos on the very promising performance of solid-state drive (SSD), I decided to give it a try. And Macbook Pro is built to last forever! It would be a huge waste to throw them away just because one or two of the parts are broken!īased on reading from the Internet and from my personal experience, the most fragile and vulnerable parts are: I hesitated for a long time thinking whether it was a right choice to buy a new laptop (I am not rich).Īnother concern was that what could I do with the old Macbook Pro if I decided to get a new computer? Throw it away? Give it to charity? Recycle it for free? After all, many of the parts are still fully functional.ĬPU and RAM are actually the last parts to die among all parts out of the whole laptop. I thought it was time to get a new laptop.īut a new decent laptop cost more than a few thousand ringgits. Lately, it was showing signs of slowness and hard disk failures more and more frequently. It is 6 years and 3 months old and counting. My Macbook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009, 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) was bought in December 2009.

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