• SupremeFuzzler@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Six years is recent enough for decent virtualization support at the CPU level, so it’ll probably run within 5 to 10% of the “native” performance you could get with Boot Camp. If you have enough RAM to give the VM a decent amount it should be fine.

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      1 year ago

      I had a 10 year old Macbook Pro that was really slow, I put in an SSD and it was transformed. Not expensive and plenty of YouTube videos on how to do it.

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        Mine has an SSD. It’s not super slow or anything. But it is an Intel iMac, so I didn’t know if that would be a barrier. Sorry, should have been more specific.

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        I did this back in the day to my 2011 MacBook Pro which I’m still working on right this minute