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I have a dead 17 MBP that I upgraded by installing a SSD and maxing the RAM. I squeezed a few years of very good life out of (it’s now unused because of the graphics card problem that hits this vintage of ‘book). That was the third MacBook I’ve done it to and the performance difference before/after is night/day.
The first unibody was, IIRC, a little tricky because it lacked Firewire and was a crapshoot as to whether you could ‘see’ all the RAM installed.
Later models were fine, I think?You’re going to hit problems with the hardware not being ‘officially’ supported by newer OSs. But you can always work around that.
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Are there hard and fast rules as to how far you can upgrade/mod an older macbook? On the advice I've recieved on this thread it's starting to look more and more appealing. Also, I realised that we still have my wife's 2010 13" Macbook Pro knocking around that has be usurped from her use by a Surface laptop which she loves. I'm thinking as the Pro was a higher spec machine than my plastic Unibody, it might make a more suitable candidate for upgrades.