Upgrading a 17" 2007 MacBook pro . . .

[mspace]

Hello, experts!

My idea is to get a MacBook Pro 17" 2.4ghz core2 duo (2007-2008) in shape to send to a friend in Grenada. It's working and I'd rather it be used by people who need it. This is for her daughter to use for school work, email, youtube. They have one MacBook Air that is newer (by not much) which her mom uses for all the video work she is doing. Needless to say having access to ANY second computer would be a benefit in these times.

I'm taking it to someone to check the motherboard, etc., then my plans are to put in an SSD and new battery. It already has 4g ram, which is the most it can use.

Everymac says the last OS it can use is El Capitan (10.11). Should I install that or keep it at 10.10?

Any other things I should have in mind to make this work?

Thanks!

[anonymouse1]

El Cap was very reliable for me.

[sekker]

EC, SSD and new battery - that machine will run fine.

If you do not do any major financial transactions on it, I would not even be worried about the lack of security updates.

I think it can run the latest Chrome, too.

[hal]

I think I tried youtube on something from this era and it didn't go well. It might have been a macbook (no video card) and that might make a difference.

[mspace]

sekker wrote:
EC, SSD and new battery - that machine will run fine.

If you do not do any major financial transactions on it, I would not even be worried about the lack of security updates.

I think it can run the latest Chrome, too.

"EC"???

[jdc]

My family uses 2007 and 2008 C2D iMacs with SSDs and El Cap (EC) and they run fine. 3-4 GB of ram even.

I also *think* theres a version of FF thats current for El Cap.

[sekker]

El Capitan...

[mspace]

Thank you, wise ones.