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Going to replace the battery while I have it opened too.
Just need to learn how to clone the drive.

I bumped up memory while I was in there as well. As for cloning the drive, I bought a cheap enclosure from Amazon, put the SSD in it, formatted it and copied my HD to it—took a while obviously. I think I found step by step directions on YouTube. Then pulled the HD from MBP and put the SSD in. Thought having an extra HD in the case would be handy, but turns out I never use it.

Much of my machine’s slow down was actually from the HD. Program crashes, spinning beach balls all went away with the new SSD. As I said, it was like getting a new computer.

Thanks for the info. I like my MBP, hate the new ones(but that’s another story).
The HDD died, I sent it off to repair. They installed a 1T, 5400 rpm . It boots like an old Windows machine, sloooow.