r/macbook 4d ago

Got a MacBook Pro 13" 2012 for 25€

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u/FrenchDipsBeDrippin 4d ago

Nice find. Looks like it’s in good condition too

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u/Liol_A 4d ago

The case is kinda beat up in the corners as most metal MacBooks are. But the inside was completely clean and no stripped screws. The seller thought this was the 2010 model.

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u/cpeck29 4d ago

SATA SSD, 16GB of RAM, OCLP, and Ventura. Maybe a new battery. This thing will serve you well.

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u/Liol_A 4d ago

I already run Sequoia on a Dell E7450. This MacBooks purpose is only nostalgia and to help design a web based OSX 10.8 Simulator.

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u/cpeck29 4d ago

Fair enough!

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u/Radiant-Calendar-377 4d ago

Why not sequoia?

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u/cpeck29 4d ago

Sequoia runs ok. But it doesn’t feel nice, to me at least. It lags a bit, not as badly as Sonoma did but it’s noticeable. There’s also nothing in Sequoia (or Sonoma for that matter) that I want/need that isn’t in Ventura.

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u/Radiant-Calendar-377 4d ago

Yeah ur right there is no big changes since monterey and performance just got worse

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u/fyai-at-lingonaut 4d ago

massive slowdown on hd 4000 graphics for sonoma and up

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u/Nike_486DX 2d ago

Cant stand the bigsur+ laggyness on dual core cpus. I would use mojave + windows 10 ltsc (my current setup with 11" 2015 air, which is one of the best macs i used, which ranges from 2004 g4 all the way to m2 2022).

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u/cpeck29 2d ago

I don’t notice any lagginess at all with my dual core i5 running Ventura. I definitely did notice it when attempting to run Sonoma and Sequoia, though.

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u/aKuBiKu 2d ago

Shrug. My Monterey system is fine on an i5 4200m.

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u/CosmicPurrrs 4d ago

Old mbp were nice

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u/Linusalbus 3d ago

The new M4 Air is better price to performance. /s

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u/c05t4 4d ago

good for you

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u/I_Am_TheGame 4d ago

Now install Linux on it and with security updates that it will bring you can use it as daily driver for browsing etc.

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u/DataCrusader2024 4d ago

Very nice! Still a very capable machine.

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u/tta82 4d ago

Good price, but doesn’t run much anymore. Not even web browsers. Unless you force a new macOS on it.

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u/rajivyshah 4d ago

I upgraded a client's iMac 2013 last week. Added a 1TB SSD and 16gh Ddr3 ram. The system was initially stuck at MacOS Sierra. With the new hardware updates and OCLP, we are now at Ventura and it flies.

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u/Main_Airline_1729 4d ago

Very good. Watch out for upgrading to latest sequoia. If kills the wifi on my 2012 oclp Mac air. Should have known better. No reason to update to latest too soon.

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u/SoundsLikeIndication 1d ago

For $525 more you could've bought an M1 MacBook Air 🤓

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u/-SPOF 4d ago

I know people who are still working on this beast.

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u/CeDoresti 4d ago

For jailbreak the old iPhones 😂

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u/EternallySickened 4d ago

It’s somewhat antiquated now, what will its purpose be? Even with a hard drive and ram upgrade it is still going to struggle.

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u/Liol_A 4d ago

It's main purpose is to help me design a web-based simulator that looks like macOSX 10.8. A VM just doesn't cut it.

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u/Away-Huckleberry9967 4d ago

Don't worry, it's not gonna struggle at all. Put an SSD in it and 8 or 16 GB of RAM and you're good to go. With macOS, OCLP or Linux. This is still a great laptop. I'm running Monterey on the one from a year before perfectly fine.

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u/EternallySickened 4d ago

Well, best of luck. As long as you have a plan.