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Review on Sintech Compatible 2013-2017 PRO: Unleash the Full Potential of Your Late 2013-2015 Device by Tim Shah

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Sleep/Wake/Hibernate not working. And it overheats. Ensures long-term stability.

I have a 15" MacBook Pro A1398 from mid 2014. Came with all tools. Installation was fine. Installed a fresh copy of Catalina. High Sierra and everything after that will update Boomrom to accommodate NVMe connections BUT the two big issues I'm currently facing are: 1. Won't sleep and won't go to sleep.It won't sleep after pressing the power button and after closing the clamshell.2.I've found that it's much hotter than usual (when nothing works at all) and louder 3. Upgrading from an OEM 256GB Apple SSD my speed went from 650MB/s read/write to 1300MB/s read/write Me only saying this because I upgraded to the best NVMe SSD I could find Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB Due to lack of lanes I only get 1300MB/s as my MacBook Pro doesn't come with PCIe 3.0 since s Supports the 8.0 GT/s maximum connection speed of 2015 MacBook Pro models. on the other hand, the maximum connection speed is only 5.0 GT/s, which I get on my 2014 MacBook Pro due to the inferiority of the PCIe bus built into my MBP board. Attention Sellers: How to solve the sleep/wake/hibernation problem? Which settings should be applied? Can I patch my bootrom to support NVMe Sleep/Wake like 2015 models? Please reply. I'm not happy with these results as my battery drains faster and I don't like this overheating issue this method had on my MBP.

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  • Best
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  • Ugly packaging