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Apple's First 13-Inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display Now Classified as 'Obsolete'
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Im on a 15.4" mid 2012 right now on this page. Still pretty wonderful.
Still using mine, although the left side speaker has gone all crackly on me. Keeping my eye out for what comes next in the MBP line.
What an exciting computer that was, especially the first retina 15" MacBook Pro. It was mind-blowing. You just wanted to show that screen around. I don't think I've been excited about a Mac again ever since
I went from a 2012 15” rMBP and I skipped a few generations (butterfly keyboard, touch-bar regressions etc) in favour of two XPS’.
I brought an ARM-based rMBA 13 a few months ago and I’m confident in saying that ‘the Mac is viable’ again.
The irony is these are still very much modern products that aren’t too far off from the newer Intel-based MacBook Pro.
If it weren’t for the M1 chip there would be very little progress made in nine years.
If it weren’t for the M1 chip there would be very little progress made in nine years.
Another Retina MacBook Pro added to the Obsolete List?
This hurts, man. This really hurts. 😢
This hurts, man. This really hurts. 😢
I still use this. Its my personal MacBook (have a 2018 MBP from work too). It does not support Big Sur, and I had to get a new battery last year. Its a great computer but seeing lot of CPU spikes lately on random instances after recent OS updates. Will be getting the next M1 MacBook that comes up (with no TouchBar).
I think I purchased my 15” for around ~£1300 (that includes ~15% student discount) with a 256GB SSD that I replaced with a 1TB OWC.
The price was pretty competitive with the discount, and swung it for me and a few of my contemporaries at Uni.
Yeah, I only have 8GB of RAM and Big Sur was a noticeable slow down for me. I feel like I have gotten my money’s worth though. I think this generation of MacBook Pro was the perfect notebook.
And a lot of this "progress" was entirely misguided – either gimmicky tosh (Touchbar), a fatally flawed design (Butterfly) and a general inconvenience that keeps on giving (USB-C only dongle life, T2 chip issues and kernel panics, macOS QA going down the drain). Tim Cook's stewardship has been great news for the iPhone and iPad but a total disaster for the Mac.
Not really, for a (almost) 10 year old model.
Why does Apple force people to throw their perfectly good laptops in the trash. Do they really hate the environment?
Not even close, no other brand of computer (desktop or laptop) has the lifespan....and support lifecycle of Apple computers. even 5 years is borderline dinosaur in computer lives.
You are not forced to throw it anywhere. Simply, the new software will not be supported by the older machine. Exactly as your Windows XP will not run on a 286 machine. As long as the hardware doesn't fail, you can use this machine forever.
They are forcing you? really, you know that you can keep it and keep using it for as long as it runs and does the work that you need to do. There are parts available from www.dvwarehouse.com
I remember that, but it was the 15 inch that I recalled had the issue. The LG were the bad ones
Yeah, too bad they don’t make screens that large anymore...
The fact that these computers last this long is impressive. Every windows laptop I’ve ever owned had to be replaced after 2 years because of some sort of internal catastrophic failure. Still rocking my 2012 rmbp
Same here regarding the 2015 13" MBP! Last fall, I replaced the stock 256 GB SSD with a 1 TB SSD from OWC, which gave my MBP new life. The device still handles everything I throw at it, except for some photo- and video-editing apps that choke on the 8 GB of RAM. I believe the 2015 model was the first 13" MBP that could drive a 4K monitor, but 4K videos sometimes stutter and make the fan run high when I use an external 4K monitor. I got a 2019 27" iMac to handle those needs. But the MBP is great when I want to use a computer when I'm sitting on the couch or outside on the deck. It's hard to believe that a six-year-old computer is still so useful. I expect to keep using it until it no longer supports the latest version of macOS -- at which point, I'll have an excuse to buy an M-based MBP or MacBook Air.