I was about to say the same thing. Its not a $2400 laptop.

His only choice is go to ebay / amazon. A laptop 7 years old it is a miracle that laptop lasted that long. at $200, apple rep is right, its best to put that $ into a new or slightly used laptop.

I do not get these posts that say things like this on a laptop that has done its duty for 7 years. Even HP / Dell / Lenovo enterprise will not have the parts for this.

> A laptop 7 years old it is a miracle that laptop lasted that long.

It's not a miracle, it's why Apple hardware has high second hand value. Got a 2012 Macbook Pro here still doing great. As it should be.

A new laptop with equivalent specs from Apple is at least $2400. This is not complicated.

If you really think so I would recommend looking at some benchmarks because that is not particularly close to reality.

Although you should wait until the M1 variant of your laptop releases. It is a bad time to buy the non Apple Silicon macbooks.

Your laptop does not have equivalent specs to the new ones :P No doubt yours will feel very slow compared to it running modern software.

I own the same laptop model, same year, also with battery that needs replacement. At well kept state they can reach 600 Euro (about $700 USD) on ebay in my country. Mine isn't well kept and I wouldn't sell anything with a battery in a bad condition so I have no illusion mine is worth even $400.

A new laptop with equivalent specs is probably a $300 Chromebook.

That thing is 7+ years old.

Don't be silly.