Reviving a 2010 MBP without Hardware Upgrades
If you are working on a 2010 MacBook Pro with only 4GB of RAM and a mechanical hard drive, you must be very careful with your OS choice.
Recommendations:
- Stay on High Sierra: For the best performance on a mechanical drive and low RAM, macOS High Sierra is the only usable option.
- Avoid Monterey/Sonoma: These versions will be painfully slow on a hard drive. The constant disk indexing will make the Mac unusable.
- Upgrade Path: Tell your friend that for $30, they can get a 240GB SSD and 8GB of RAM. Once those are installed, the Mac will run macOS Monterey beautifully via OCLP.
Original Question: "What MacOS should I put on this"
 | This is a friends MacBook Pro mid 2010 and I was going to put OCLP on it, but I’m not sure what macOS I should use because it has only got a hard drive and a 4 GB of ram which I will be upgrading for him at a later date. I just didn’t know what I could put it on for now to make it usable. [link] [comments] |
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