I have a mid 2010 Macbook pro. I am not in a position to buy a new imac or macbook pro yet. I do light graphic design and some video editing with Final cut X. I was thinking for no upping my ram and swapping out my optical and my hard drive with an SSD drive. Is it worth it? Is it a waist of time and money? what are your thoughts I may just swap the hraddrive with an SSD and up the ram. I know I cant swap the graphics on it. Oh one last question I have an opportunity to buy a mid 2010 imac for like 200 bucks and I was thinking of doing the same to that because I can swap the graphics card. Is that worth it?
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Upgrading mid 2010 Macbook pro
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SSD is a worthwhile upgrade. RAM as well if you only have 4 GB.
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$200 is a good price, depending on the specs.
Upgrading to an SSD will make a night and day difference and will breath new life into the machine. You could easily get a few more years life out of it if you do that. If you can I’d also upgrade the RAM if you have not already done so.
I can’t speak to the iMac because I am not as familiar on those machines. Personally I’d save that $200 towards your savings to purchase a newer MacBook in a few years and just keep with upgrading the current MacBook in the meantime.
Here is the imac specs
3.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB ram
Nividia GeForce 9400 256 MB
Like I said I thought of picking it up throw a new video card, ram , and SSD in it and I think that should handle the videos I make. Its more of a passion really. Whats the max ram that I can put in the Macbook pro? Would it be best to keep my optical and swap out the HD to a SSD
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What would you recommend SSD wise? I think my next purchase will be an imac but for now im trying to just speed up my old macbook pro. Its still very capable but its a bit sluggish now.
It really depends on the amount of SSD space you are looking for, and how much you are willing to spend. I haven't had to upgrade hard drives in a long time (thanks to proprietary SSD in MacBooks now), but Samsung makes some of the better replacement SSDs. Here's a $500 GB SSD one for just over $100 USD.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-500G...F8&qid=1531770306&sr=1-3&keywords=samsung+ssd
Keep in mind too, once you decide to upgrade you can take out this SSD, put it in an external harddrive case, and boom, you have yourself a 500gb SSD external harddrive.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-500G...F8&qid=1531770306&sr=1-3&keywords=samsung+ssd
Keep in mind too, once you decide to upgrade you can take out this SSD, put it in an external harddrive case, and boom, you have yourself a 500gb SSD external harddrive.
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Thats kind of the plan. I can take it out in a few years and still use it.
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Based on the specs, the iMac is a Late 2009 21.5", not a 2010. And the 9400M is an integrated GPU, can't be upgraded.
From what is stated on EveryMac, 8 GB is the max amount of RAM the Mid 2010 MacBook Pro will take.
well looks like i will just upgrade my macbook and speed that bad boy up. It is at 4 gb ram so I could throw another 4 in and upgrade that SSD and give it some new life.
[doublepost=1531773756][/doublepost]So what SSD and Ram should I buy so I know the will work.