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The MacBook was a low spec machine for students and such. The MacBook Aluminium was everything but a low spec machine (in fact, they sold it a year later as 'M

The MacBook was a low spec machine for students and such. The MacBook Aluminium was everything but a low spec machine (in fact, they sold it a year later as 'MacBook Pro') and I bought it for 1050 Euro new in 2009. The plastic MacBooks were ok, but definitely not so cramped at the time as a MacBook Pro base model today. I know it's a hard disk, but the 2008 model had more storage than today's base model MacBook Pro (160GB vs 128GB). At the time, macOS worked well on spinning platters, while having an SSD is pretty much a necessity now.

coldtea 8y ago
>At the time, macOS worked well on spinning platters, while having an SSD is pretty much a necessity now. Is it? Or just what we're used to? If you go to SSD speeds, you can't easily go back. I don't think OS X / macOS needs an SSD any more than it used to (if you boot as HFS+ volume). It will be faster with the SSD (of course) but it wont be slower with an HD than it would be back in time, just because it's HD.