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mbp early 2011

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    Changing HD3000-VRAM on Macbook Pro 13 (early 2011) running Catalina

    Hello Folks I’m new to this forum and joined for this particular topic. There are already many threads of changing the VRAM on my unsupported Macbook here and on other sites but the are all kinda long (posts over a couple of years) and some are not dedicated posts but mixed various questions...
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    What is the best Mac OS for MBP Early 2011 8,1 with 2.3 GHz 2nd Gen Core i5, 16Gb RAM, 500GB SSD?

    Hello there, It's August 2019 AND have got Macbook Pro Early 2011 - 8,1 with following specs: 2.3 GHz 2nd Generation Core i5 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB 312 GB HDD Currently Running: OS Sierra PROBLEMS: Extremely SLOW PERFORMANCE w.r.t. boot-up time / app-launching...