Thanks for this advice Robin, he has a 1TB drive which he uses
externally attached and I am encouraging James to keep non essential
data on the external drive (all of which is backed up of course) to
TM. Using this configuration, I am confident he can comfortably
operate with a 250GB SSD (just as I do with my 13" Retina). We are
certainly converging on the upgrade path over the replacement MBP
path.
Regards
Pete.
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Subject:Re: Late 2011 MBP
Peter,I run a 2011 MacBook Air with 4 GB RAM but it has a SSD and is
very good with Sierra and all its tasks.Change the HD to a SSD (and
update the RAM), it will make the MBP very fast and responsive. It
will be the best $250 you will have spent on a computer in years. You
should consider getting a 500GB SSD and not upgrading the RAM if the
cost gets too high.I’m guessing that a 2011 model may soon be
abandoned by Apple in a future Mac OS update, maybe 10.13 or hopefully
10.14.
robin
On 1 May 2017, at 6:11 pm, Peter Crisp wrote:
HI there, my son James is finding his MBP is quite slow when doing
high demand activities, video and photo editing etc. He is also in Y11
and finds his MBP lags behind peers in a classroom environment but I
don’t think it is any or much slower than a late 2011 MBP would be
if it were straight out of the box today. His HDD is less than half
full, running Sierra 10.12.4 and 2.4GHz intel core i5 4GB ram with
500GB HDD.
I am thinking there are two paths to take but financial impact will be
significant in deciding what to do. Either a later model MBP swap
which is faster than current item or an SSD/ram upgrade for his 2011
MBP. I've researched a bit and figure for ~$250 I can fit a 250GB SSD
and 2X4GB Ram cards and this will bring it to a good speed level I
think. But this will still leave it as a 2011 MBP.
Does anyone have any recommendation of what later model MBP I might
target that will give equivalent speed to my proposed upgraded 2011
MBP result?
Peter [email protected] [2]
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