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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1554207" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Welcome to the Mac Forums!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The retina model MacBook Pro machines are not upgradeable. You read correctly. We always advise someone who plans on buying one to make sure they buy as much as they can within budget. You also have to think about future use. Memory of 8 GB should suffice for considerable time. As for the SSD, 256 GB is the minimum I would consider realizing that 500 GB would be more expensive.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Probably not if your WD 500 GB hard drive is formatted to NTFS. Mac OS X can read NTFS but not write to it. However, there is a driver available that will allow both read and write. (Paragon NTFS = $19.95)</p><p></p><p>Mac OS X can natively read and write to FAT, FAT-32, exFAT, and of course HFS+.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1554207, member: 46727"] Welcome to the Mac Forums! The retina model MacBook Pro machines are not upgradeable. You read correctly. We always advise someone who plans on buying one to make sure they buy as much as they can within budget. You also have to think about future use. Memory of 8 GB should suffice for considerable time. As for the SSD, 256 GB is the minimum I would consider realizing that 500 GB would be more expensive. Probably not if your WD 500 GB hard drive is formatted to NTFS. Mac OS X can read NTFS but not write to it. However, there is a driver available that will allow both read and write. (Paragon NTFS = $19.95) Mac OS X can natively read and write to FAT, FAT-32, exFAT, and of course HFS+. [/QUOTE]
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