what can i upgrade on my macbook pro 13 mid 2010

You will need the right size of 'torx' heads for the screws but you can get a set for a few bucks at a hardware store. It sounds like you know your way around a computer so installing the SSD shouldn't be an issue (it only took a few minutes). I know it's impossible to say when something unfixable could break for good, but I'm just looking for suggestions. I forgot how much I enjoyed the Apple workflow, so I'd like to keep using this machine as long as I can without putting too much additional money into it.

I only ask because it seems like this is in pretty good condition and runs fairly quickly for a 7+ year old machine. Is there anything else you'd recommend me doing, other than shelling out $1,000-2,000 on a brand new Macbook?.If I upgrade the SSD and either don't have to worry about the battery or should upgrade it, should I also upgrade my OS to something more recent? I know that High Sierra likely won't play nice on a machine this old, but maybe another of the prior OS's will? El Capitan possibly?.Should I have any concern about the battery? Being that this laptop is almost 8 years old, I don't know that it's worth shelling out $100+ on an OEM battery, or if one of the third party ones on Amazon will do.Would it be worth it to upgrade the hard drive to a 250 GB or 500 GB SSD? I'm already planning on opening up the laptop so I can clean the fan(s), because they do make a bit of noise and the machine can run a little warm at times.The OEM battery status is showing 'Check Battery' and has 690 cycles on it. However, I'm not crazy about the VM/Ubuntu experiment and have read that Apple works very nicely for programming.

I've recently taken up programming (specifically right now, The Odin Project's front and back end web development course) and have set up a VM to run Ubuntu on my Windows 10 desktop. I have a 13' mid-2010 MacBook Pro with the Intel Core 2 duo processor, 8 MB of RAM, 320 GB hard drive, still running OSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.

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