re: Macbook getting slow

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Go here, pick out an ssd drive and swap it out. They have videos showing you how. It even made my late 2008 macbook able to function relatively well and run El Capitan

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i second OWC. i put a 480gig SSD in my 2009 MBP-17". Under $200. Put in 8 gig while i was at it for beans (can't remember exact amount $35 or so--Crucial aka Micron)

I got the little kit to turn my old internal into external, but i just used a Time Machine backup from a backup drive and then cleaned house to get it up to 450gig available. Upgraded to El Capitan.

It's like a brand-new computer. Super fast. Gonna partition it and use it solely as a Mac/Windows 10 work machine with VMWare fusion. VMWare with crap-arse windows 8.1 would barely run before the hardware upgrades. It was miserable.

eta: unless you've changed batteries recently, you might want to go ahead and throw in a battery while you're at it. The "Puredick" (yes, wtf?) one I just put in works great.