Upgraded Mac

Paul Bennett · 25 Aug 2015

After months of frustration with the poor performance of my mid 2010 MacBook Pro I finally got off my arse and upgraded it. Purchased a 8 gb ram upgrade and 1tb SSD from Crucial.com both of which arrived within 2 working days and it took less than an hour to swap them over. Wish I had done it sooner

Overexposed · 25 Aug 2015

Makes a difference doesn't it!

Swissglover · 25 Aug 2015

Paul Bennett said:
After months of frustration with the poor performance of my mid 2010 MacBook Pro I finally got off my arse and upgraded it. Purchased a 8 gb ram upgrade and 1tb SSD from Crucial.com both of which arrived within 2 working days and it took less than an hour to swap them over. Wish I had done it sooner

What kind of cost was involved and is the increased performance very noticeable?

saglik · 25 Aug 2015

Good move.
I did a similar upgrade with my 2009 Macbook Pro and the difference was like day and night.
I also removed the optical drive to insert a hard disk.
Quite pleased with the overall performance.

Paul Bennett · 25 Aug 2015

It cost a total of £307.00 Kevin and the increase in performance is very noticeable. I am so glad I did it.

Paul Bennett · 25 Aug 2015

It certainly does Mark

Paul Bennett · 25 Aug 2015

Removing the optical drive and replacing with another SSD will be next when funds allow Saglik

Swissglover · 25 Aug 2015

Paul Bennett said:
It cost a total of £307.00 Kevin and the increase in performance is very noticeable. I am so glad I did it.

Very interesting to hear that. My pro is a bit newer at 2011 and have been toying with going SSD so good to hear it makes a vast difference, cost seems reasonable too assuming it was professionally done?

Swissglover · 25 Aug 2015

Apologies, just re read your original post and see that you fitted it yourself. I'm guessing there are YouTube vidirs on how to do the job?

saglik · 26 Aug 2015

Yes. I did the upgrades myself by watching YouTube videos as well.

steveb · 26 Aug 2015

saglik said:
Good move.
I did a similar upgrade with my 2009 Macbook Pro and the difference was like day and night.
I also removed the optical drive to insert a hard disk.
Quite pleased with the overall performance.

I quite agree. I have the 15" 2.8GHz 2009 MBP, 8GB RAM, a 512GB SSD, a carrier in place of the optical drive containing a 1TB 7200 rpm drive and running 10,10,5. It made all the difference.