Well, it's had its RAM quadrupled and its storage boosted from a 160GB HD to a 256GB SSD. It does indeed boot quite smartly, and I have the sense that the performance hit dimly sensed following the Yosemite "upgrade" has gone away. It's a great pity that my twin iMacs (home and work) apparently cannot support 8MB.

The MBP is not a production machine (it's running Adobe CS4; could run CS6 at need)), but in potential functionality it exceeds my aging twins in certain respects. This is a six year-old machine, and whatever else we may say about Apple ("the computers we love from the company we hate" as someone quipped long ago), their hardware keeps going, like the Energizer Bunny. Indeed, my Mac AIO* (a grotesque Bizarro predecessor to the original iMac that indeed weighs sixty pounds—I once was obliged to hump it on foot for over a mile) sits on an adjacent desk here, fired up a few times a year when I need to summon forth specialized functions requiring this or that iteration of the old Mac OS.

*formerly the property of expat US science journalist Erica Rex, who quit these shores for medical reasons.

cordially,