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Could someone post a side by side pic of

2021 16" vs 2008-2012 17"

?
Here is my Late 2011 MacBook Pro 17”. It’s the last generation of 17-inch laptops Apple made before discontinuing the A1297 model. I installed an SSD with OpenCore macOS Catalina and it works fine with most apps (except I can’t use FCPX on it because I had to disable the discreet Nvidia GPU)
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