The 2016 and 2017 share common heritage, Apple did enough tweaking in the follow up designs to prevent using 2018 and newer. While not definitive here’s how one can often see what is compatible across. Look at [link|https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html|EveryMac- MacBook Pro list] so for an example we can see the Late 2013 and 2014 share the same base Model ID ***MacBookPro11.x*** where x is the sub version
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The 2016 and 2017 share common heritage, Apple did enough tweaking in the follow up designs to prevent using 2018 and newer. While not definitive here’s how one can often see what is compatible across. Look at [link|https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html|EveryMac - MacBook Pro list] so for an example we can see the Late 2013 and 2014 share the same base Model ID ***MacBookPro11.x*** where x is the sub version
Apple didn’t like it we figured out their system and from 2016 onward we don’t have a clean means to tell what is interchangeable here we need to depend on parts houses to give us a clue! Often they make look the same but are not signal compatible! This gets into TrueTone in this case.
The 2016 and 2017 share common heritage, Apple did enough tweaking in the follow up designs to prevent using 2018 and newer. While not definitive here how one can often see what is compatible across. Look at [link|https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html|EveryMac- MacBook Pro list] so for an example we can see the Late 2013 and 2014 share the same base Model ID ***MacBookPro11.x*** where x is the sub version
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The 2016 and 2017 share common heritage, Apple did enough tweaking in the follow up designs to prevent using 2018 and newer. While not definitive here’s how one can often see what is compatible across. Look at [link|https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html|EveryMac- MacBook Pro list] so for an example we can see the Late 2013 and 2014 share the same base Model ID ***MacBookPro11.x*** where x is the sub version
Apple didn’t like it we figured out their system and from 2016 onward we don’t have a clean means to tell what is interchangeable here we need to depend on parts houses to give us a clue! Often they make look the same but are not signal compatible! This gets into TrueTone in this case.
The 2016 and 2017 share common heritage, Apple did enough tweaking in the follow up designs to prevent using 2018 and newer. While not definitive here’ how one can often see what is compatible across. Look at [link|https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html|EveryMac- MacBook Pro list] so for an example we can see the Late 2013 and 2014 share the same base Model ID ***MacBookPro11.x*** where x is the sub version
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The 2016 and 2017 share common heritage, Apple did enough tweaking in the follow up designs to prevent using 2018 and newer. While not definitive here how one can often see what is compatible across. Look at [link|https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html|EveryMac- MacBook Pro list] so for an example we can see the Late 2013 and 2014 share the same base Model ID ***MacBookPro11.x*** where x is the sub version
Apple didn’t like it we figured out their system and from 2016 onward we don’t have a clean means to tell what is interchangeable here we need to depend on parts houses to give us a clue! Often they make look the same but are not signal compatible! This gets into TrueTone in this case.
The 2016 and 2017 share common heritage, Apple did enough tweaking in the follow up design to prevent using 2018 and newer. While not definitive here’ how one can often see what is compatible across. Look at [link|https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html|EveryMac- MacBook Pro list] so for an example we can see the Late 2013 and 2014 share the same base Model ID ***MacBookPro11.x*** where x is the sub version
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The 2016 and 2017 share common heritage, Apple did enough tweaking in the follow up designs to prevent using 2018 and newer. While not definitive here’ how one can often see what is compatible across. Look at [link|https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html|EveryMac- MacBook Pro list] so for an example we can see the Late 2013 and 2014 share the same base Model ID ***MacBookPro11.x*** where x is the sub version
Apple didn’t like it we figured out their system and from 2016 onward we don’t have a clean means to tell what is interchangeable here we need to depend on parts houses to give us a clue! Often they make look the same but are not signal compatible! This gets into TrueTone in this case.
The 2016 and 2017 share common heritage, Apple did enough tweaking in the follow up design to prevent using 2018 and newer. While not definitive here’ how one can often see what is compatible across. Look at [https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html|EveryMac- MacBook Pro list] so for an example we can see the 2016 and 2017 share the same Model ID
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The 2016 and 2017 share common heritage, Apple did enough tweaking in the follow up design to prevent using 2018 and newer. While not definitive here’ how one can often see what is compatible across. Look at [link|https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html|EveryMac- MacBook Pro list] so for an example we can see the Late 2013 and 2014 share the same base Model ID ***MacBookPro11.x*** where x is the sub version
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Apple didn’t like it we figured out their system and from 2016 onward we don’t have a clean means to tell what is interchangeable here we need to depend on parts houses to give us a clue! Often they make look the same but are not signal compatible! This gets into TrueTone in this case.
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The 2016 and 2017 share common heritage, Apple did enough tweaking in the follow up design to prevent using 2018 and newer. While not definitive here’ how one can often see what is compatible across. Look at [https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html|EveryMac- MacBook Pro list] so for an example we can see the 2016 and 2017 share the same Model ID