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Sure, totally get your point, and I'd consider upgrading drive and memory like I said / as vilms pointed out you could give that old horse quite a boost.
Still, 10 years is a lot - you may reach a dead end soon (or may have already reached one) in terms of new OS not being supported, which will lead to, say, new version of Safari or whatever not being supported, which will lead to you not being able to really browse the internet on that thing (even though the processor / RAM etc. would happily do it).
Quite frankly they want you to buy new shiny things (and to cut Apple some slack I think they are already pretty nice when it comes to supporting old hardware).
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I get your point and it's something that I'm wrestling with. Specifically though, is there a way of finding out what the max amount of RAM etc I can upgrade the machine by?
Obviously, I'd rather start with a new machine but $1600 plus tax for a new base model macbook or a few hundred for a new Crucial 500gb SSD and RAM seems to be pretty tempting if it can be done and gives me a few more years of service.