New life for MacBook Pro
My 2007 vintage MacBook Pro was starting to feel a bit sluggish. Running several virtual machines under Fusion and doing work at the same time caused just too much stress on the disk i/o and 4GB of RAM. So I went and did some research and did some upgrades. I now have a 128GB SSD with the 2nd generation Samsung controller in it and it is amazingly fast. I also discovered that I could upgrade the machine to 6GB of RAM. It took some searching to find the right part but it was well worth the effort. The machine is almost never disk i/o bound, even when swapping, and the extra memory makes a BIG difference when running VMs. Much happiness for this old geek. I also plunged into Snow Leopard which also helps since it does conserve some memory and disk space. Long live my MacBook – it has to, it was not cheap 