How many people still use old MacBook Pro?

[OldMacPro2]

Very nice find! I had the 23" over twenty years ago. I purchased it new and sold it ten years later. These monitors don't come up very often for sale but when they do, they are super cheap because I think people either want the latest and greatest or don't know what these are. Not as sharp as the 5k but the colors are still very good. I also like the aspect ratio of the Cinema Display.

I've never owned an Apple Cinema Display until I found this one a couple years ago. It was listed for local pickup on Craigslist. The guy selling it had lost the power supply and was asking $70. Screen was in perfect shape, no scratches or bad pixels, from what he said. Picked it up and then got the power supply on eBay for $25. For $100 had it working and love it!

 

[poi ran]

1 old Macbook Pro 2008, and some newer 2009, 2012 (Retina) and 2015 (Retina obviously). All with SSD and more than standard RAM, all 15". My daughter will soon get the 2012 MBP, at the moment it has Monterey but I wonder if I should install a newer OS. Mainly for web browsing and school work (she's 11).

Will Sonoma have as good GPU support as Monterey? This MBP has Intel HD 4000 and Nvidia GT650m

MBP 2008 - Catalina
MBP 2009 - Catalina
MBP 2012 Retina - Monterey
MBP 2015 - Mojave (!) - yes, we want to run Iphoto and Aperture on this machine...

My desktop PC is on Monterey and Sonoma at the moment, but I prefer Monterey.

 

[Watson6601]

Based on the experience that I heard from somewhere, I decided to try Ventura on my Mac Pro 3,1. Wow...it's working great!

There are a lot of issues running Sonoma or Sequoia on a cMP 3,1 with dual CPUs, but they don't seem to be there with Ventura.

I know Ventura will probably get turned off for updates later this year, but in the meantime, it's a "sweet spot" for this old hardware.

For many older Macs, Ventura appears to be the sweet spot. It's wonderful to hear that your dual CPU cMP 3,1 is operating nicely.