9/11/2023 0 Comments Macbook pro mid 2009 ssd![]() The only “free” option that I really had left was to backup the data, reformat the hard drive, and install a fresh copy of OS X. ![]() Nothing seemed to make a difference, and after an agonizing afternoon slowly upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion, I decided to get serious about fixing the problem. This was bad even for the hardware it had, so I tried a few different solutions, including upgrading to OS X Lion, fixing disk permissions, and general hard drive cleanup (defrag, deleting applications and files that were no longer needed, etc.). From a cold boot, it took about 4 minutes to load the OS and stop thrashing the hard drive so you could open a browser or iTunes. When I first used this laptop in 2013 (four years after it was manufactured) it was running OS X Snow Leopard. A few searches online uncovered others who had similar setups and successfully upgraded them to modern performance standards with an SSD and additional RAM. ![]() ![]() While it probably worked great when it was new, five years later it had become painfully slow (#firstworldproblems) with its 2GB of RAM and 160GB HDD. My fianc é has a 13″ MacBook Pro from 2009. ![]()
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