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I also have a 2009 macbook pro. I bought it with 2gb ram (or was it 1gb?--can't remember) upgrading to 8gb at the time would have cost me like 3-400. I upgraded
by fakename 12y ago
I also have a 2009 macbook pro.
I bought it with 2gb ram (or was it 1gb?--can't remember)
upgrading to 8gb at the time would have cost me like 3-400.
I upgraded to 4gb for about $50 in 2011, and upgraded to $8gb in 2013 for another ~$50.
- to3m 12y agoI did something similar too. This is actually very bad for Apple - because I've now had the same Macbook Pro for 5.25 years, and it's remaining serviceable thanks to RAM upgrades and a modern high-capacity SSD. I'm sure it will end up lasting 5.5 years and it seems like there's a fair chance it will (Apple software support and wobbly ports permitting...) last for 6. But if they'd forced me to pay for all the upgrades up front, I'd probably still have bought the same spec (the 8GB RAM option was eye-wateringly expensive at the time, and the SSDs were comically pricey) - and then I'd have had to buy a whole new one after 2 years. Which probably wouldn't have had an SSD, because they were still expensive back then. So I'd probably be buying another one round about now, if not before, and Apple would have had 3 purchases out of me rather than just one.