WIN 7 boot camp on 2009 13" MBP 2.66 core 2 duo 8 GB RAM

[cerberus22]

i am considering buying 1 TB of SSD to put in my 250 GB HD unibody and then installing a boot camp of windows 7. i have previously been running Mac OS and Parallels with win 7 and have been extremely unhappy with the performance of this machine.

i'd prefer not to buy a new machine but if the degree of difficulty of doing this is too high or too expensive or if the performance on the machine will not change much i have to get a new machine.

ideally i would like to buy a macbook air to carry around so i can do daily tasks that i can't complete on my iphone so i am not really happy about getting a 15" and the 13" is just too heavy for me to carry around for daily use.

any advice?

 

[yjchua95]

i am considering buying 1 TB of SSD to put in my 250 GB HD unibody and then installing a boot camp of windows 7. i have previously been running Mac OS and Parallels with win 7 and have been extremely unhappy with the performance of this machine.

i'd prefer not to buy a new machine but if the degree of difficulty of doing this is too high or too expensive or if the performance on the machine will not change much i have to get a new machine.

ideally i would like to buy a macbook air to carry around so i can do daily tasks that i can't complete on my iphone so i am not really happy about getting a 15" and the 13" is just too heavy for me to carry around for daily use.

any advice?

No matter what you do, the MacBook Air will still be far more powerful.

I think your MBP is a mid-2010 with 2.66GHz P8800, because the most powerful option on the 2009 13" is the 2.53GHz P8700.

In any case, the baseline i5-4260U in the current MacBook Air is 72.8% faster than the 2.66GHz P8800 in single core tasks, and 93.8% faster in multicore tasks.

And the 13" retina MBP isn't heavy at all. It's only a half-pound heavier than the 13" Air, but you get a far better display and a better CPU, plus better iGPU.

You'll be better off buying a new machine because a 1TB SSD isn't all that cheap, and it's not worth throwing so much money into a 5-year old machine.

 

[Gjwilly]

According to Everymac, the 2009 was offered with the 2.66 P8800.

http://www.everymac.com/systems/app...66-aluminum-15-mid-2009-sd-unibody-specs.html

if you're on a budget you might save a little by going with a 2012 rMBP and installing a TB drive in that.
That's the last year that you could easily upgrade the SSD.
Not as fast as a new one but still faster than what you've got now.

 

[yjchua95]

According to Everymac, the 2009 was offered with the 2.66 P8800.

http://www.everymac.com/systems/app...66-aluminum-15-mid-2009-sd-unibody-specs.html

if you're on a budget you might save a little by going with a 2012 rMBP and installing a TB drive in that.
That's the last year that you could easily upgrade the SSD.
Not as fast as a new one but still faster than what you've got now.

The OP says he has a 13", not a 15".

The P8800 2.66GHz is only on the 15".