Upgrade 2009 Macbook Pro to latest OSX?

Hades · 24 Feb 2017 at 17:33

I have a near immaculate Macbook pro from 2009 that I want to bring back into use. It's actually quite quick with 8gb RAM and just the dual core CPU. But can I simply buy the latest OSX and put it on there? Will it slow it down a lot?

Thanks.

MagicBoy · 25 Feb 2017 at 03:21

OS X is £0 nowadays. Anything past 10.8 tends to struggle without an SSD. 10.12 generally requires a 2010 or later Mac, so you might be limited to 10.11.

https://support.apple.com/kb/sp742?locale=en_GB

Hades · 25 Feb 2017 at 15:15

Thank you.

Behemoth · 3 Mar 2017 at 23:49

You'll definatley want to put an SSD in it, even if its just a 128 gig drive it willbe a much better experience that have a mech drive in there. I've got a mid 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch and with the latest OSX on there with 6 gig of RAM I still found it quite sluggish. Put in a Crucial 240 Gig SSD and it make a huge difference

Emlyn_Dewar · 5 Mar 2017 at 17:46

Agree with the above, I almost feel like OSX is unusable on slow 2.5" mechanicals!
I use an ancient 2008 MBP with an SSD (runs at 1.5gbps) and even it feels great to use still.