MacBook Pro 13 Mid 2012 Ventura upgrade working flawlessly

Everything is working flawlessly.

After grabbing a 256gb SSD and putting it in the main bay before putting the HDD in a caddy to replace the removed optical bay, I went ahead and patched to Ventura.

Working absolutely flawlessly, thanks for the suggestion for removing the optical bay and which operating system to use. My USB decided to crap out on me right as I needed it, I actually managed to install it without a USB 😂

Boot time has gone from 3.5 minutes to 27 seconds, I can't get over how fast this MacBook now runs.

Considering I've never done more than remove a battery from a laptop before. Swapping the SSD/HDD and the optical bay removal took me about 20 minutes total, quite easy to do with a bit of patience, a brew and 2 YouTube videos haha.