I bought this laptop in Paris in 2012: it has the French keyboard layout (AZERTY instead of QWERTY) even though I use it with the Italian layout by memory (👀).
It's probably one of the last models Apple made that you could open up and upgrade yourself. I did, a long time ago, with 16 GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD.
It's starting to worry me: the fan makes weird noises sometimes.
I can say that daily programming with Rails activates the fan quite often (damn you Rails system tests 😂), it didn't when a couple of years ago I was writing a web app with Go (not a fair comparison, I know).
Having held on to a "slow" computer (well, it wasn't the first few years 😝) also had the side effect of me becoming really interested in performance optimization in programming 🔥
It's also the only computer I own.
Eight years with a portable computer is pretty amazing in my opinion. It was great hardware or I got super lucky or both!
Here's to another 8 years. Just kidding 🤣
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My first two laptops both lasted 10 years.
Every laptop I've had has had an overheating problem. First I was on AMD Athlon 64, then Intel Pentium, then Intel i3. I am buying a laptop with Intel i5 this week.
As your laptop still lasts after 8 years without being broken, you have a good laptop. I thought the build quality of mac laptops are good so they don't slow down over time.
8 years is quite a long time for any laptop I think. What slows them down, other than wear and tear is software which gets more resource hungry over time.
I'm right there with you. I'm still rocking my 2012 MBP 15". I also bought a 2012 Mac Mini a few years ago. I upgraded to SSD and added more RAM on both. The only thing I'm really missing out on are the nice retina screens of today's MBP.
Ah ah living the 2012 life I see :-)
Still rocking my early 2011 MBP, only upgraded to 16 GB RAM and changed battery, everything else still humming along.
Ahah amazing! :-)
Wow, it's amazing 8 years! I have one since 2015 and still work. I hope it works 3 more years because in this model I cannot change the memory 😞
It looks like the MBP 2015 once was the "best laptop ever made": marco.org/2017/11/14/best-laptop-ever
Don't know what's the current situation, the reviews of the latest MBP seem very favorable.
I want the magsafe back though, and all sort of ports :D
9 years!! That's one more. Who knows, maybe in a year's time I'll make another post :D
If I were to only do graphics and editing I'd consider switching back to Windows too, but I really don't like the operating system and I don't want to deal with WSL2 :D
Glad you're happy though!
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Z470 and it will be 8 years this October. Was partially retired from programming duties after a year and was mostly a secondary dev & primary gaming device for most of its years. while it really has slowed down a bit, I never had to replace any of its part.
It's my first laptop. And truly if you take good care of your possessions, they will surely take care of you as well. Cheers to more years! 😊
Nice, well done! :D
I think that if we I were a regular "surfing the web user" I could keep this until it phisically breaks but as I work with it I might take a shortcut at some point but I'm going to wait for the factories and shops to reopen.
8 years is impressive! I think the 2012 was my first introduction to a Macbook Pro. I have such fond memories of how over the moon I was when I started using it.
I sometimes miss having some ports on my laptop, and being able to have more than one usb plugged in at a time 😁
"Fun story": I bought my first Macbook (non Pro at the time) with money that I got with Google's Summer of Code. So I have to thank Google for me becoming a Apple customer (I had zero Apple devices back then) 🤣
That one time I tried to type something on an
AZERTYkeyboardGreat choice on going with the i7 model back then!
Ah ah same here. First thing I did was to change the keyboard layout. I can type with the US layout and the Italian one. That's it. I tried a few times going back to
AZERTYbut my head exploded too :D