90% of Macbook Pros with their original hard drive from this era are so slow upon first boot that I want to throw the thing into the garbage. I used to boot up and run malware scans and check the small things before getting into installing MacOS on the new SSD, but that is a huge waste of time. I would rather get the SSD up and running before and transfer user files with all their virus than trying to navigate this machine on a hard drive. These Macbook’s specs are not spellbinding, but the hard drives in these are a HUGE bottle neck…that’s why they are such amazing bang for buck if you know about the SSD upgrade.