Hey just curious I have a early 2008 MacBook Pro that's starting to go I think its been shutting off by itself not all the way prepared to upgrade to what I want just yet ... Lined up a 2011 13" i5 MacBook pro for 325 if I max out the ram would this hold me over for a bit??? Music production and basic stuff?
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MacBook pro 2011 hold me over?
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Max out the RAM to 16gb and install an SSD and you'll have a machine that rivals a modern MacBook pro in performance.
Even with the i5. The 2.3ghz i5 in that machine benchmarks around 5000, which puts it around 20% slower than the 2015 models on pure processor performance alone, but they have higher clock speeds. You can pick up a 500GB SSD for under $200 these days, and that combination would get you a machine that is very quick and should serve you well for a few years.
Yep, I have no real complaints with my 2011 13" 2.3GHz - swapping out the factory HDD for an SSD made a really big difference (about 500MB/s in both directions on a Samsung 840 EVO 256GB). Its trackpad is starting to give out and it needs a new battery, but it's otherwise a very capable machine.
I did end up getting an 13" rMBP recently though because I was due for a tech upgrade at work.
I did end up getting an 13" rMBP recently though because I was due for a tech upgrade at work.
Well that is not true. You can't expect that from a 4 year old machine.
At least the early 2011 MBP got hot and loud just watching a youtube video.
It's a good machine but don't fool yourself into thinking it rivals the best mobile CPUs on the market right now.
See my sig, just replaced the 120GB SSD with a 512GB, alongside the 1TB HDD and 16GB RAM makes a cool spec IMHO
