If you want to extend the useful life of your machine even further, replace your existing mechanical HDD with an SSD. (I assume you have a mechanical HDD because you described the virtual memory swapping as making “lots of noise”.) It’s a bigger pain in the neck to swap out a system drive, though. May as well take the opportunity to do a fresh OS install as well - it’ll run like a brand new machine.
The upgrade to SSD is the best! But it is a good idea to take it with a specialist, if you do not have experience or security to open the unit. The first time I did I broke a plate resistance 😂 —I guess that's how you learn.
Ditto, did the same. Back then, I even swapped out the optical drive (aka CD drive) to an SSD. Woot, more disk space FTW. I managed to get my MPB 2010 to last me 5 years after swapping out the dead battery once. Those were the good old days. Apple don't make these machines as good as they used too, my MBP that I bought as a replacement 2 years back has been giving me so many problems I'm considering a Windows or a Ubuntu machine the next time I buy a new workhorse.
I assure you that it happened to me the same, I did not understand it, until one day I did. It's only for specific cases, that's why I say "sometimes". I usually have a virtual machine for those moments.
"Blessed are those who can use Windows without needing Linux".
—Dev 8:26
Thank you for the suggestion! I'm not ready to let go of my laptop for a new one just yet so will have to look more into that. Adding RAM will do for now I think, but I will definitely keep that in mind for future reference :)!
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If you want to extend the useful life of your machine even further, replace your existing mechanical HDD with an SSD. (I assume you have a mechanical HDD because you described the virtual memory swapping as making “lots of noise”.) It’s a bigger pain in the neck to swap out a system drive, though. May as well take the opportunity to do a fresh OS install as well - it’ll run like a brand new machine.
The upgrade to SSD is the best! But it is a good idea to take it with a specialist, if you do not have experience or security to open the unit. The first time I did I broke a plate resistance 😂 —I guess that's how you learn.
wiki.ubuntu.com/BootToRAM
should be faster than SSD 🤔 😜
I did RAM and SSD on MacBook Pro a few years ago and it wasn’t so bad.
But these days I think that’s impossible on the new machines if I remember correctly.
Ditto, did the same. Back then, I even swapped out the optical drive (aka CD drive) to an SSD. Woot, more disk space FTW. I managed to get my MPB 2010 to last me 5 years after swapping out the dead battery once. Those were the good old days. Apple don't make these machines as good as they used too, my MBP that I bought as a replacement 2 years back has been giving me so many problems I'm considering a Windows or a Ubuntu machine the next time I buy a new workhorse.
Windows 10 is fine 👌, but it takes some time to get used to it and... Sometimes you have to install some distribution of Linux for development.
I never understand comments like this. I fail to see what you can do on Linux that you can't do on the Windows host OS
I assure you that it happened to me the same, I did not understand it, until one day I did. It's only for specific cases, that's why I say "sometimes". I usually have a virtual machine for those moments.
"Blessed are those who can use Windows without needing Linux".
—Dev 8:26
😂😂😂😂
Again though there is nothing in everyday development that would require me to use Linux.
Thank you for the suggestion! I'm not ready to let go of my laptop for a new one just yet so will have to look more into that. Adding RAM will do for now I think, but I will definitely keep that in mind for future reference :)!