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Mar 22, 2017
An affordable entry-level Macbook that runs Sierra like a champ!
1 of 1 found this helpful I bought this Macbook (note -- this is a basic Macbook, NOT a Macbook Pro, but it's been jacked up to 4GB RAM from the original spec of 2GB, so there's definitely a boost.) a few months ago. It came with OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" installed, but after a bit of reading, and a few OS upgrade cycles, I finally decided to give Sierra a whirl on this machine. It's my second Mac device, after recently buying a 2012 iPad 4 Retina, which runs iOS, not macOS. As a "forever Windows" guy, I was quite impressed with the responsiveness, reliability, and performance of a 2009 machine running a 2016/17 OS. This is, as is often touted, due to the tight integration of hardware and OS, entirely controlled by Apple -- but to the average end user, they really don't care. I most likely would not use this as a high-end multitasking platform to run the latest products from Adobe, but as a general purpose, low-cost entry to the Mac world, I'm quite happy with this. I might upgrade it to 8 GB -- undecided as yet. And yes, this is one of the last Macs to be user-upgradeable i.e. you can open up the machine yourself to upgrade or replace components.