2009 Macbook Pro Owners - How Many Running Yosemite?

[A4orce84]

Hey Guys,

As the title states, I was curious how many 2009 Macbook Pro Owners out there are running the latest version of OSX 10.10 Yosemite?

I recently took the plunge and upgraded a few weeks ago, and I've been pleasantly surprised with performance and everything so far. I did swap in an SSD a year ago, so I'm sure that helps....but I'm amazed it's running fairly well on a near 7 year old laptop.

How's everyone else's experiences so far?

Thanks!

 

[msh]

I am running Yosemite on an early '08 MBP. Runs great. No WiFi or any other issues.

 

[A4orce84]

Anyone else?

 

[thewap]

macbook pro 2009 17", here.

 

[magicrevolver]

Me too, a Macbook Pro 2009 13"
Installed 10.10.1 at the weekend and so far seems to be running really well. It seems a little zippier!

 

[iLog.Genius]

Late-2008 MBP and that's with a standard platter drive. The only I have issue with is the UI gets laggy if I use the integrated GPU (which is almost always when I'm mobile and not near a outlet) but runs smooth if I use the discrete GPU.

 

[colinwil]

Runs great

No problems with it on my early 2009 MBP 17". I've upgraded to 960Gb SSD (Crucial) and maxed out the ram to 8Gb over the years.

I still have to remember to disable AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext every time there's an OS update - so that games (eg. WoW) don't suddenly start running slowly because of a bug in the throttling heuristic settings. I've been having to do that for years too. I reported it (again) in the Yosemite beta but I'm guessing they won't fix it now.

Apart from that it runs great