MBP 1,1-10,2 What to do With 2011 MacBook Pro?

[Cals2lip]

Hey MacRumors! First post here—just joined, but a long time lurker lol. So i just got a 2011 17” MacBook Pro, and i got performed a clean install of MacOS Lion 10.7.5. My question is what should i do with it? Thought about using it as a dvd/cd player, but i thought you guys would have better suggestions for refurbishing old Macs. It’s got a 1Tb SSD, 8Gb DDR3 RAM, and the AMD Radeon HD 6770M. TIA!!

 

[HoreaG]

Put 16 GB of RAM into it. Also if that 1 TB SSD is one without DRAM better exchange it for one with DRAM, even if of less space.
Now the advantage of this MacBook is obviously the screen size. Find uses that need screen space. You could use it for trading, although for most trading apps you will need a newer OS, I guess. Maybe you can use browser based apps, like Tradingview with Firefox Dynasty if you insist to run Lion on it.

 

[Cals2lip]

Put 16 GB of RAM into it. Also if that 1 TB SSD is one without DRAM better exchange it for one with DRAM, even if of less space.
Now the advantage of this MacBook is obviously the screen size. Find uses that need screen space. You could use it for trading, although for most trading apps you will need a newer OS, I guess. Maybe you can use browser based apps, like Tradingview with Firefox Dynasty if you insist to run Lion on it.

Ok thanks! That’s really helpful

 

[ToniCH]

I have several 2010-2011 MBP 17". With OCLP I have installed modern(ish) MacOSs to them and all have 16GB RAM and a SSD drive. They are perfectly usable in daily laptop roles.

Couple of them even have USB3 ExpressCards. And I also plan to install a newer wifi/BT card to one.