In article .com,
Savageduck wrote:
...and this Mid-2010 21.5 inch, 3.6 GHz Core i5, with 16 GB DDR3, running
macOS 10.12.6 still manages to get stuff done. One day I will treat myself to
a new Mac.
you keep saying that
buying something cheap, only to spend money on it to make it less sucky
is not a good idea.
No need to spend more on it. Those are just possibilities if one wanted
to keep the thing.
Yup! If the inclination grabs one, then that particular MacBook is a good
candidate for an SSD, and possibly another 4 GB RAM. Who cares if it
doesnąt have a retina display if it will do the work.
because by the time you add all that stuff, you've spent about what a
more recent mac would have cost, which has many more features.
and actually, for tony's situation, a used mac mini would be the best
choice, which he could plug into his existing displays and use his
existing keyboard and mouse.