Yosemite on MacBook Pro 17 inch Mid 2009 - worth it?

[PaoPao]

Is it a good idea? I have heard it tends to overheat running Yosemite.
The configuration is as such:
3,06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
8 Giga RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB


What is your experience?


Thanks for answering
Pao

 

[comatory]

Is it a good idea? I have heard it tends to overheat running Yosemite.
The configuration is as such:
3,06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
8 Giga RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB


What is your experience?


Thanks for answering
Pao

I had a 15-inch 2009 MBP running Yosemite. I didn't notice any issues with it so you should be good to go.

 

[Raunien]

If you don't have an SSD in your machine, mavericks and yosemite will run like crap. Throw an ssd in there and it'll be fine.

 

[Trio2]

If you don't have an SSD in your machine, mavericks and yosemite will run like crap. Throw an ssd in there and it'll be fine.

Disagree. I have a mid-2009 MBP 17" with a standard hard drive and Yosemite (and Mavericks before it) runs just fine.

 

[chiefsucker]

I probably wouldn’t risk it or install it on a separate partition / drive. Yosemite still has some serious performance issues, see e.g. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1841894/

 

[darmr]

Yosemite runs fine on my MBP 17" mid 2009 machine.

 

[stooovie]

Asking people performance questions is useless. What's "just fine" for one person is "totally unusable" for another.