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Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now... by rahimnathwani on Friday September 14, 2018 @05:13PM (#17991000)
2015 MBP 15" retina has the older, more reliable, keyboard, magsafe power, decent CPU and adequate GPU, HDMI, 2 mini-DP, regular USB 3 ports.

You could go older but there's no need unless you want a DVD drive. And you'd sacrifice CPU performance and maybe memory capacity.

Alas, it seems the Apple official Refurb store sold the last of their 2015 MBP models earlier this year. The earliest ones I see now (in US/UK/HK stores) are 2016 models.

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Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now... by prawn on Saturday September 15, 2018 @01:31AM (#17993134)
You could swap out the DVD drives for a second hard drive. But that era MBP was a bit underpowered IMO. I had a great 2012 before the keyboard started failing. Now enjoy a 2015.
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Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now... by saagarjha on Friday September 14, 2018 @05:48PM (#17991262)
The MacBook Pro actually had two Thunderbolt 2 ports, not Mini DisplayPort.
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Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now... by rahimnathwani on Saturday September 15, 2018 @02:39AM (#17993287)
You are correct. But they're backward compatible with Mini DisplayPort. The only cables I've seen people plug in to them are minidp to {DVI, HDMI, DP}.

External hard drives are mostly USB3, and I don't know anyone with an external GPU.

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Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now... by katbyte on Friday September 14, 2018 @08:01PM (#17992063)
I got a 2015 pro new from the apple canada online store in feb this year
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