I think that was around the time when macbooks were "fast enough", especially since that was when SSDs became the default. I remember I got my first macbook aro

I think that was around the time when macbooks were "fast enough", especially since that was when SSDs became the default. I remember I got my first macbook around 2011/12 and at the time doing your own upgrade of memory and replacing the hard drive with an SSD was a pretty popular DIY upgrade (N=1).