I had an older core 2 duo laptop I was thinking of replacing, but found that just replacing the HD with an SSD made all the difference I needed. When I needed

I had an older core 2 duo laptop I was thinking of replacing, but found that just replacing the HD with an SSD made all the difference I needed. When I needed to do IOS development I decided to look at buying a Mac Book Pro recently, rather than go with a new model, I bought one off ebay that had a 3 year warranty, upgraded the ram to 16GB (overkill) and put in an SSD for less than buying a new MBP. So when people start moaning about how they need to upgrade their slow laptop/pc, as long as the machine is at least core 2 duo (64 bit), I end up recommending they get an SSD and more memory. For the £150 investment they walk away extremely happy for the next 5 years.