I’d love to give it an SSD, but opening one of those is NOT for the faint of heart.
I have a problem with tossing a good 23” screen because of the HD, which SHOULD be easily replaced. The new models (which we cannot afford) DON’T have built in DVD, a deal breaker for me.
I installed an SSD on a 2011 MBPro. Very easy. At first.
Cloning you HDD is a snap.
The Disk Drive cable an all 2011 MBPro’s is faulty so it must be replaced. The cable cannot handle the bandwidth needed.
Yosemite won’t allow you to use trim on aftermarket drives so I’m still on Mavericks until Windows 10 is stable or a year or two which ever comes last.
Mine runs like a bat out of hell now.
What's a DVD?
No kidding. It's not huge inconvenience in a desktop but no DVD drive in a laptop???
Prevented me from getting a new MacBookPro.
I bought a used one 2012 model w/ everything including a DVD drive. No it's not a retina display but HD.
Seemed stupid to me to have a portable and have to carry a separate optical drive. Bad move Apple. IMO