I had been using a 2016 MBP at work and couldn't take it with me. Booted up my old 2011 MBP non-retina and it was painfully slow. 5min startup and a lot of prog

I had been using a 2016 MBP at work and couldn't take it with me. Booted up my old 2011 MBP non-retina and it was painfully slow. 5min startup and a lot of programs completely unusable. Took me all of 10min to swap out the HDD for an SSD and 2x2gb RAM for 2x8gb RAM (and cost about $100). Now I don't notice any difference for normal web development/light design work between the new and old machines. Sure - the 2011 is a lot heavier and the screen is rubbish, but I love that keyboard and the trackpad is perfectly sized for me.