2016 macbook pro 13 inch touch bar upgrade

The pictures first showed up on an online forum and reveal that there was some protective shielding over the SSD. This is going to come off as a major disappointment to anyone who was looking forward to a company, such as OWC, making aftermarket upgrades for these machines, but it also highlights the importance of picking the right storage option from the get go.Īdditionally, it’s surprising that Apple would mix and match by going with the removable PCIe unit in the lower end MacBook Pro and the soldered PCIe-based unit in the higher end MacBook Pro. After seeing in iFixit’s teardown that the base model of the new 2016 MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar had a removable PCIe SSD storage unit, many were excited at the possibility of aftermarket upgrade parts across the new MacBook Pro lineup.īut new images surfacing on the web this week after the first MacBook Pro with Touch Bar units began reaching the hands of buyers are showing that the Touch Bar models don’t follow suit and have SSD storage chips soldered into their logic boards instead.

2016 macbook pro 13 inch touch bar upgrade