Re:Ask HN: What to do with a old MacBook Pro?
by kingkongjaffa on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:48PM
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I'm at the same point with my MBP2012-pre-retina.
The last one without ram soldered to the board so you can upgrade it.
It's still my daily driver in 2020 with 16gb ram and an ssd.
I was looking at the 2020-MBP with the new keyboard but beyond some graphics/performance improvements in games, I'm not seeing a compelling argument to upgrade.
Having it on the LAN plugged into some external hard drives as a no-additional-spend NAS might work.
Re:Ask HN: What to do with a old MacBook Pro?
by jetti on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:44AM
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I have the same model as you and love it. I didn't think about Apple stopping updates to it. Is your laptop actually utilizing the full 16gb of ram? I upgraded to 8gb but was not sure if 16gb is fully supported or not as Apple said it wasn't.
The last one without ram soldered to the board so you can upgrade it.
It's still my daily driver in 2020 with 16gb ram and an ssd.
I was looking at the 2020-MBP with the new keyboard but beyond some graphics/performance improvements in games, I'm not seeing a compelling argument to upgrade.
Having it on the LAN plugged into some external hard drives as a no-additional-spend NAS might work.