![]() ![]() You might "up the RAM" while you're changing the drive. Go either with 2 4gb DIMMs (for 8b), but I think you'd do just as well to replace the "top" DIMM -only- with an 8gb DIMM for 10gb of RAM. My own April 2010 13" MBPro ran it's entire life (right up until December 2016) on Snow Leopard 10.6.8. It -still- boots and runs fine on 10.6.8, but I've retired it for a 2015 13" MBPro. ![]() My sister has a 2010 white MacBook and does fine on Mountain Lion 10.8.5. ![]() Leave the existing OS alone for the moment. If you still want to "go further", try Mountain Lion 10.8.5. If that's "not enough", I'd recommend El Capitan 10.11 before Sierra. Sierra - from the reports of numerous users in this forum - still seems to be "a work in progress". I agree that if 10.6.8 is still capable of running your Apps, I say stick with it. If not, then El Capitan is a good OS and I find it runs well on older machines when they have ample RAM and a SSD. In my opinion, I also agree that modern SSDs would not be overkill for two reasons: As you probably already know, disabling some of the visual animations can help an older machine run a newer OS a bit better. older SSDs were far more expensive to produce, and so, if you can find an older SSD, the price may be 2,3,4+ times that of a modern SSD.the hard drive in your computer probably reads and writes between 40-75 MB/s and suffers from latency that equates to a delay - a SSD in your computer will read and write around 300 MB/s and has virtually no delay.With a SSD, your bootup time could be as low as 10 seconds (especially with Snow Leopard, which is stupid fast) and many lighter Apps will launch the instant you click the icon. When choosing a SSD, it may be worth sticking with a model that someone else has put in your exact computer and used successfully. #BUY MEMORY FOR MACBOOK PRO MID 2010 UPGRADE#.#BUY MEMORY FOR MACBOOK PRO MID 2010 INSTALL#. ![]()
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