However, my mid-2010 iMac i7 is going up for sale in February, with a 960GB SSD, 3TB hard disk and 12GB RAM (2 x 2GB and 2 x 4GB).Īs they share the same RAM, I could simply swap the MacBook Pro's 4GB with the 8GB in the iMac, resulting in both machines have 8GB. Total cost = £480 for an early-2011 MacBook Pro i5, 16GB with 1TB SSD, 1-2TB hard drive and a brand new battery. I was planning to buy 16GB (2 x 8GB sticks) for this MacBook Pro, at £100. I run memory and CPU intensive applications, especially with virtual machines and programming applications, and my MacBook just couldnt these heavy apps (deadly beach ball icon). Looks like the battery is on its way out, at 700+ cycles (around £45). Im a graduating Computer Science student using a MacBook Pro early 2011, 2.3GHz Intel Core i5, RAM of 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3, and running at OSX Yosemite(10.10.2). I'll also be adding 1-2TB of spinner in the optical bay for storing GoPro footage (around £100).

Today I installed a 1TB Crucial SSD and replaced the trackpad.

It'll be my only machine for certainly a couple of years and used mainly for music production and recording guitars, plus some graphic design and occasional GoPro editing on Final Cut Pro X - although I'm aware I'll be rendering fairly slowly on this machine. Hey, a friend kindly gifted me an early 2011 MacBook Pro i5, allowing me to sell my mid-2010 iMac i7, before I go travelling for a couple of years, in February 2017.

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