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Apple's First MacBook Pro With a Retina Display Will Become 'Obsolete' in 30 Days
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I already addressed why in the thread - its not meeting my kid's needs, i.e., performance is too slow
My grandpa is still using my 2012 rMBP. It was a great machine aside from some initial problems with the display image retention, which Apple quickly sent off to repair. They replaced the LG display panel with Samsung and it was great after that. Over time the hinge got a little loose, which sometimes happens as laptops get older, but I kind of wonder if it stems from that repair.
How about the USB-C magnetic cables?
I just googled it and found some products out there that I didn’t know about. Thanks!
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I just bought a mid-2012 MacBook Pro. Upgraded the HD to 500GB sad, put in 16GB RAM. Very sweet little machine 😎
That’s the non-retina model, not what this article is about. Great that those had user replaceable RAM and hard drive! I sure wish current MacBook Pros had memory slots and M.2 storage, rather than everything being soldered to the motherboard.
Fair enough. Just thought to mention it as to how upgradeable they are, retina or not.
Ah the nostalgia! My last Apple laptop was a 2006 Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo. I loved that thing so much (it ran Snow Leopard and was replaced in 2013) and I miss it. It still worked just fine when I replaced it.
I knew this was coming. I still use and love mine.
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Sorry, didn't go through the entire thread. Even with a SSD and increased RAM?
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Sorry, didn't go through the entire thread. Even with a SSD and increased RAM?
The original poster keeps saying that 8 years "isn't really" a long time to offer hardware support. My response was to show me a PC vendor that supports their hardware for more than 8 years if that "isn't really very long". I gave him an example that Dell only supports their hardware for 5 years....meaning the OP is going to be hard pressed to show me a PC vendor that supports for 8 or more years....in other words he is FOS....you misinterpreted my example.
I still have a MacBook from 2006. It still works. It’s still has a few functions that I use from time to time. For instance the old version of iTunes would convert your tunes to MP3 something new versions of iTunes will not do. I keep my old Apple products. I keep them until they won’t turn on anymore. I have an iPhone two, four, and six that I keep around and use in the house for various tasks. The iPhone 6 works with my iPhone 8 as a second phone in the house.
I believe OS updated are minimum as long as AppleCare, but often far longer. Typically CPU or GPU features wind up being why Apple drops support for older models.
With Apple trying to get services revenue, they are going to be financially encouraged to have those services support as many machines as feasible - including PCs, Android, and older iOS/Mac operating systems.
People often harp on apple for getting rid of MagSafe connectors, which I TOO miss, but if one thinks about it in overall context, apple want to more to USB-C and thunderbolt. 3, and use a combined cable for both power and data transfer/connectivity. At the time I think it wasn’t really possible to get both 85W power delivery AND all the port throughput that they wanted. they could have certainly left POWER to just be a single cable and leave the ports as well, but I think they wanted to move in the direction of power/data coming on the same single/few cables for all.
At this point, we can get 100W power/many GB Data throughput AND monitor/video IN/OUT ALL on the same single USB-C cable.. that’s pretty incredible.
At this point, we can get 100W power/many GB Data throughput AND monitor/video IN/OUT ALL on the same single USB-C cable.. that’s pretty incredible.
I guess my Late 2012 iMac might be soon. It is currently my main Mac at home.
I got it at launch in 2012, BTO with the i7, 680MX GPU, and 1TB Fusion, and was originally going to replace it around 2015-16. It is just still so fast and powerful for what I do with it, I haven't needed to replace it.
I recently purchased an Samsung X5 TB NVMe drive that I am going to use as my external boot drive on it, using the internal Fusion Drive as a cloned back up. I am sure it will still last me a while longer.
I got it at launch in 2012, BTO with the i7, 680MX GPU, and 1TB Fusion, and was originally going to replace it around 2015-16. It is just still so fast and powerful for what I do with it, I haven't needed to replace it.
I recently purchased an Samsung X5 TB NVMe drive that I am going to use as my external boot drive on it, using the internal Fusion Drive as a cloned back up. I am sure it will still last me a while longer.
Why not both?
Besides, it kind of makes them look a little foolish when viewing their old advertisements:
How lucky for them that you think so. If I told customers that after 6 years, we think you’ve used our products enough & shouldn’t get software updates, and after 8 years you won’t even be able to get parts, I’d never make another sale again, be ridiculed as a fly-by-night sham, and be out of business in no time.
It was most pronounced to me with the iPhone 4. Game changer
Just bought this machine like a week ago in maxed out CTO spec for 450$ With just 208 cycles on battery. Wanted to buy fancy new iPad Pro keyboard for 350$ (actually 400$ here in Europe) but for couple $ more I think this was no brainer purchase.
I Repasted MBP with Grizzly Kryonaut and damn this machine is great ! Feels like brand new actually
tried som FCPX editing and 4K is handled flawlessly. All in all great great machine.
I Repasted MBP with Grizzly Kryonaut and damn this machine is great ! Feels like brand new actually
tried som FCPX editing and 4K is handled flawlessly. All in all great great machine.As of right now I’m still using a Mid 2012 15” Retina MBP but my new 2020 13” Pro is coming tommorow to replace it. I guess I have pretty good timing. Wonder if I’ll be able to keep my new 13” until it’s obsolete as well.