Early 2008 MacBook pro upgrades [closed]

I have an early 2008 17 inch MacBook Pro, and I'm trying to upgrade it to run more like a modern laptop. What are the first things to upgrade and some top priorities. Also when would it cross the line where it would just be easier/less expensive to buy a somewhat new macbook. Thanks for any advice.

Solution 1:

I'm guessing this might be closed as "opinion-based" but IMO, it's not really worth it.

New SSD, max out the RAM at 6GB, last supported OS El Capitan… it would still be OK for email & a bit of light word processing, but not so much out in the interwebz, because it has no security updates any more.