Buying a Used MacBook Pro 15"

[Fozziebear40]

I've just checked the repair program and it is until December this year but i'll stick with a 13" I think.

My current laptop is nearly 10 years old. (I have a new iMac for everything else)

The piece of software is very very specific, impossible to move on. I am happy with a Snow Leopard machine to run it on. I have a 2010 Mac Mini to fall back on. I just want a laptop to work out of the office occasionally with a decent battery.

Thanks

 

[throAU]

If you need to run snow leopard at this point you should be doing the relevant hacks to run it in Fusion, virtual box or parallels.

That way it will work on whatever Mac hardware.

Also you should be making plans for when that software can not be run at all any more. You have had 5 years to plan for this already and it is not impossible to move on. Costly maybe, sure but that's the cost of running software.

 

[Fozziebear40]

If you need to run snow leopard at this point you should be doing the relevant hacks to run it in Fusion, virtual box or parallels.

That way it will work on whatever Mac hardware.

Also you should be making plans for when that software can not be run at all any more. You have had 5 years to plan for this already and it is not impossible to move on. Costly maybe, sure but that's the cost of running software.

I already run it in Parallels on my iMac but it isn't the same as running native. I've got Leopard Server, run it properly, 16MB ram, full graphics, but it still doesn't run as smoothly as native. Tried VM Fusion as well. I have the virtual machine backed up so I am covered.

I don't see how it will not run for another five years. I'll just buy an old mac whenever I need to.

If I was to buy a brand new shiny laptop I would have to baby it and not take it out. Buying a second hand one I can be a bit rougher with it