Q: So my 2010 15" MBP has served me well. On the one hand I never really taxed it. 6 year old machine now and very slow now. Buy new or try to upgrade?Opinions?
My MBP has 8 GB of ram. 256 HD not even half full...but its still slowwwwww! While I know an SSD will provide some relief it might just be far enough out of current OS compatibility to just have too much going against it.
Can't get the Activity Monitor to work properly any longer. Not sure what is going on with that. But it just balks constantly. Had been losing scroll bar lately but would get it back as soon as I cut the number of open windows. Now it seems permanently gone. I had abandoned icloud services long ago as I don't have an iphone anymore. Even having closed out the icloud accounts never having used them anyway....dialog box continues to pop up asking about icloud services.
I could buy a new (refurbished actually) MBP and then set about the business of adding new guts to the older one. That would likely work I am guessing and would give me two dependable Pros. That would not be half bad.
I guess if making the effort, I would remove the optical drive and install two new SSD's, one in the HD slot and other where the optical drive had been located. Would not likely change out more than that and then see what I had unless you guys think there is more that I should change. Then load an OS onto the new drive and hopefully have a very solid backup machine or make it an MBP for my kid. He would likely be thrilled with that idea.
Clearly if taking a pass on a new machine, the cost of two SSD's installed by me is great risk/reward. But if intending it as a backup machine, does the expenditure make sense then? Are decent internal SSD's for this thing about $100 each or $200 each? If we are talking about $200-$300 in hardware....well just the fun of taking it apart and trying to rebuild it makes that a worthwhile investment.
Anyway....what do you guys think.
MacBook Pro 15, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
Posted on Aug 14, 2016 4:02 PM