Is my laptop on its last legs?

Post date: 2020-02-12 14:44:33

Hi everybody. I'm increasingly beginning to wonder how much longer my MacBook Pro, purchased new in the fall of 2009, is going to last. Certain websites, including but not limited to The Onion, don't load properly, and it's increasingly common for sites in general to take an inordinate amount of time to load at all.

In addition to that, for perhaps a couple of years or so I've gotten the following notification when I go on Google: "We've detected you're using an older version of Chrome. Reinstall to stay secure." Much more recently, I've started getting this notification when I go on YouTube: "We'll stop supporting this browser soon. For the best experience please update your browser." The problem is that my computer seems to be too old to accept updates. And unfortunately I'm neither very computer literate/savvy (understatement), nor financially in a position to simply buy myself a new machine altogether. Are there any free (or low-cost) ways to squeeze another year or two of service out of it, that don't require a skill set that I simply don't have? Or is my computer essentially telling me that it will soon be time to take it to the back of the barn and put out of its misery? By the off-chance that it helps provide context, this is the information I obtain when I click on "About this Mac": Mac OS X Version 10.6.8, with a 2.26 GHzIntel Core 2 Duo processor and 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 memory.

Thank you.

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