

It’s a cost-effective fix: Drive prices have dropped recently, so you can get plenty of gigabytes for your bucks. If you’re still happy with that old machine’s performance, there’s no need to get a whole new Mac just to get more storage room: In many cases, it makes way more sense just to upgrade the hard drive. If you’ve had your Mac for a while, chances are you’re running out of drive space. So we asked iFixit’s Kyle Wiens to quickly summarize the process of upgrading all of Apple’s recent Mac models and to provide links to iFixit’s instructions for each one.
We thought you might find them just as useful. ‘s comprehensive collection of step-by-step instructions for upgrading hard drives invaluable. In the course of writing those stories, we found We’ve done a couple of our own hard-drive upgrade guides (for the

But it’s also one of the hardest to explain: each Mac model is different, and the upgrade instructions for one probably won’t apply to another. The Mac mini has long been the oddball child of the Mac family: its the only consumer-level machine from Apple that isnt a fully-integrated experience, and its the only Mac to have had a sub. Editor’s Note: Upgrading the hard drive can be one of the best things you can do for your Mac.
