Dear All,

many thanks for taking the time to help and provide information! Apologies for the slow reply, i was out of it with the flu...

[USER="295753"]mon2[/USER] yes, you are right, I did come from MacRumors and I have found the dosdude! Thank you also for explaining your Yopolean experience

[USER="302067"]reformatt[/USER] Thanks for the background, that cost vs benefit opinion was exactly what i was after (together with an understanding of the trustworthiness of Yopolean). I also completely agree re Linux: that's normally the path I...

Hi Piernov,

Many thanks, that's a fair assessment about the usefulness of the upgrade and you are right.

My curiosity however is on the other part: do we believe and trust that this board with 16GB RAM is a real item sold by this vendor (Yopolean)? Whether I will eventually buy and use it I am not sure, but im intrigued to find out whether someone actually sells an improved version of a7 year old main board. Is there a business case for it?

All the best,
Sebastian

Dear All,

I am trying to breathe new life into my wife's 2015 Macbook Air (1.6 Ghz / 4 GB RAM) by upgrading the logic board to an i7 2.2 Ghz with more RAM.

That's when the advert below caught my eye: 16GB on the i7 A1466 - that's double what Apple originally put on.

I know that this is technically feasible, but has anyone made experiences with it?
Do you know and rate the vendor, Yopolean? I am ignorant and don't know them.
How did the performance turn out?


I hope this is an appropriate question for this forum.

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Hi There!

I have been tinkering with hardware since middle earth was young and Commodore C64s were considered a decent piece of kit. That doesn't mean I am any good at it, only old.


Apart from building and upgrading my own own PCs, I am somewhat incapable of throwing things away and am therefore permanently trying to upcycle, whether it makes sense or not.

My current projects are to fill my wife's 2015 Macbook Air with new life (CPU & RAM) and building my son a desktop with parts we salvaged from a junkyard.

In my day job I am a Business...