How I Turned My Old Macbook Pro Into a Virtualization Environment
I remember when MacBook's first started rising in popularity. The University of North Carolina provided all students with a Lenovo Thinkpad as part of admission (this had to be super convenient from a technical perspective). Once the iPhone took off, Apple device integration as well as a slick design pushed more people to Macbook's around 2009. As a result, there are still many of the 2009-2012 Macbook Pro's in circulation (albeit probably barely hanging on). If you still have one, you can easily and rather cheaply upgrade it and get it back to a usable state. Unfortunately, newer MacBook's aren't easily upgradeable. To provide a bit of background on my MacBook Pro, it is a Mid 2010 model running OS X El Capitan with 4 GB of Random Access Memory (RAM). My battery would not hold a charge, and everything was slow. Doing basic tasks such as browsing the internet was a challenge in itself. As a result, it was tucked somewhere in a powered off state for months. Then I st