Update. Upgraded ram to 6gb and installed SSD, and kept the 750gb for storage and windows.

Even on a 7200rpm sata drive on a sata/ide converter, 10 is still very fast. Runs great on this...

Running OS X 10.11. El Capitan. The public beta version. I was under the assumption that the late 2008 MacBook Pro can run 8gb of ram, and not the early 2008 (limited to 6gb)?

And you bypass boot...

Hi, first post here. As stated, I installed windows 8.1 on my early 2008 macbook pro A1260, tricked bootcamp into installing, and it runs great. however, that annoying upgrade to windows 10 thing is...