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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Heyo yee old laptop gang. I have a 2011 MacBook Pro that I slapped more ram and a SSD into and it works amazingly. I don’t use it for games anymore (I bought it to install Windows and play games) but it handles like 60k photos wonderfully.

[–] LucidNightmare 3 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I read about this from people like you, but I did NOT have the same experience.

I recently upgraded a 2011 Pro Macbook with new RAM, and a new battery. I am furious at myself for even wasting the money to do that in the first place.

The battery, even when brand new from iFixit, barely lasted an hour or two on Youtube while I am at work. Two videos around 15-20 minutes, medium brightness, 720p, and the damn thing barely lasted those two videos. God forbid I want to use it for anything after those!

I'm assuming it was because the CPU is way way power hungry, which is okay, but DEFINITELY not usable in real situations. My main point is that my side of this situation was not at all good, and to not waste your money!

[–] Glowstick 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Replacing the spinning disk hard drive with an ssd will give you a significant increase in battery life. And it'll also make the machine wildly faster on all tasks that aren't cpu intensive

[–] LucidNightmare 1 points 4 months ago

I see I didn't mention that, but it also had a Samsung SSD that I put into it when I upgraded my desktop with a bigger SSD. :(

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