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Or do what I did, drop a shiny new SSD and more RAM in your 15" MacBook Pro 2007. Yeah, I'm cheap, but I also know there will be shinier things in the next 6-12
by abyssknight 15y ago
Or do what I did, drop a shiny new SSD and more RAM in your 15" MacBook Pro 2007. Yeah, I'm cheap, but I also know there will be shinier things in the next 6-12 months. For ~$300 I get the performance of a brand new MacBook Air (same C2D chip, but faster, actually) without breaking the bank. Granted, its not as portable and all that jazz, but it works for my immediate needs.
- phamilton 15y agoI just dropped a Crucial RealSSD into my wife's 2007 white macbook. After using it a bit, I noticed it was as snappy or snappier than my Air 11". I did some benchmarking and lo and behold it matched or beat my air all across the board. The only thing that didn't stack up was the memory benchmarks, which makes sense because the Air is DDR3. Since I no longer lug my Air to school everyday and her old machine is just as quick, I'm actually going to sell the Air and get an iMac.
- cstross 15y agoI dropped 4Gb of RAM and a 128GB OCZ SSD into my 2008 15" Macbook Pro (2.4GHz core 2 duo). Didn't stop me replacing it with a 13" Macbook Air and not looking back. The MBA has the same RAM, double the SSD capacity (I went large), same pixel count, and weighs about half as much. It also has about 50% greater battery life and feels screamingly faster. I surmise that enough of the GUI is running on the GPU that the significantly higher core count in the GeForce 320M is responsible for a chunk of the speed-up -- and the MBA's SATA-II bus running at up to 3gbps seems to be just a little nippier than the 2008 MBP with a 1.5gbps SATA-I controller and an older SSD.