MBP mid 2009 El Capitan?

[MacSafe]

Impression from El Capitan on 15' MBP 2009?

 

[mcnallym]

Seems OK on my 2008 15" MBP. I do have 8Gb and SSD but seems OK. I did a clean install

 

[randomgeeza]

Impression from El Capitan on 15' MBP 2009?

It is fine on my 17 2009, but like above, I have upped the RAM to 8G and I have a Samsung Evo 840 1TB SSD installed. I wouldn't like to see how it is on a traditional HD. I suspect a lot slower than you would like.

 

[akkers]

I use it on a Mid 2010 Macbook Pro 2.4 C2D, with spinning HDD 256 GB and default 4GB RAM. The system also has Snow Leopard.
The boot time is longer than Snow Leopard but i find it pretty quick to use overall. No major UI lag anywhere. But this particular laptop is only used for webbrowsing,so my experience may not be similar to a normal user or a power user.

 

[thekayman]

Very happy with El Capitan, runs much better than Yosemite. Granted, I have an SSD and use the discrete GPU.

 

[Rclark03]

It's been running well since beta 1 on my 2009 Mbp 2.26Ghz with 8GB of ram. It was a clean install on my regular HD as I have yet to upgrade to an SSD.

 

[marclondon]

i tried installing El Cap on one of our mid-2009 MBPs and it borked the filesystem on the disk. I can't reinstall Yosemite now as it's locked and read only. I can though access all the data. not that there was anything important on it. Disk is a 128GB Crucial SSD.

M.

 

[chaleyer]

Just upgraded my wife's 2009 13" MBP to El Capitan 10.11.1 because 10.7.5 didn't support an iTunes versions that would enable her to restore from an i5s to a new i6s. Had to update iTunes, but couldn't bump its version far enough.
I had bumped the RAM to 8Gb and installed a 256Gb SSD a couple of years ago.
Anyway, the upgrade went remarkably well and so far I'm very happy with the performance. It even feels just a little snappier than it had previously. But that could be wishful thinking.