Noice. I have owned a 2012 Retina MBP since new and Opencore legacy patcher has let me keep it running as my daily driver at home after 12 years of service despite also now also owning an M3 Max Macbook for work. Welcome to the OSX club.
It's just so cool to see other people having the exact same journey as I had a couple years ago. Try going for a 2015 Pro if you want to continue with this. Great things are ahaed. ^^ Keep up the good work :)
Ooo that's the best one! Your friend rocks! This specific version (2012 MBP 13") is an interesting case. As it was the last model to have an optical drive and multiple ports, they produced it for four years. You could still buy one brand-new in 2016, and it wouldn't be old or leftover stock. The only difference was it'd ship with the newest OS at time of manufacture. I was so lucky when I got mine in 2015. Best Buy was selling them as a Black Friday "doorbusters" deal, for $900... and it didn't sell out! I think people looked at the 2012 part and thought "eww, too old" and as such, there were plenty left when I went later that evening.
New thermal paste will also work wonders for an old mac. I just got a 2012 mac mini and used OCLP to install sonoma. It was running really hot at over 90℃ playing a few youtube videos. Applying new thermal paste brought those temps down below 85℃, not to mention lowered the fan noise You might find 4k editing possible after that maintenance.
I once had a 13" 2011 Macbook Pro. It had a replaceable 2.5" HDD/SSD, replaceable RA; (2 Sticks) a replaceable battery and a fully replaceable DVD drive. HOW is it possible that a 16" M3 Macbook Pro has not a single upgradable component and less components overall?
I have the same 2012 MBP. I could not ditch the CD/DVD drive prob because of the need to use CD or DVD for the VM Oses under Parallel. Or probably because I am too lazy :).
This was 100% the golden age, peaking up until mid-2015, just before the butterfly keyboard generation were introduced. Ever since then, I feel like apple's design choices just haven't been anywhere near as solid. I mean as powerful as the new M-Series chips are, we have ugly-ass notches on laptops and even the software if suffering, with them trying to make MacOS like iOS.
Yeah i hear good things about the performance of the m chips but i have very little experience with them or the newer hardware. Hoping to find one myself somewhere in the future...
Noice. I have owned a 2012 Retina MBP since new and Opencore legacy patcher has let me keep it running as my daily driver at home after 12 years of service despite also now also owning an M3 Max Macbook for work.
Welcome to the OSX club.
Can I have it
This is so cool ! Shoutout.
Good job! I have the 15 inch one and I want to restore it to it's full glory.
You can do it!
It's just so cool to see other people having the exact same journey as I had a couple years ago. Try going for a 2015 Pro if you want to continue with this. Great things are ahaed. ^^
Keep up the good work :)
Ooo that's the best one! Your friend rocks!
This specific version (2012 MBP 13") is an interesting case. As it was the last model to have an optical drive and multiple ports, they produced it for four years. You could still buy one brand-new in 2016, and it wouldn't be old or leftover stock. The only difference was it'd ship with the newest OS at time of manufacture.
I was so lucky when I got mine in 2015. Best Buy was selling them as a Black Friday "doorbusters" deal, for $900... and it didn't sell out! I think people looked at the 2012 part and thought "eww, too old" and as such, there were plenty left when I went later that evening.
Didn’t know they kept selling them new till then!
Genius! That's super cool, nice job
New thermal paste will also work wonders for an old mac. I just got a 2012 mac mini and used OCLP to install sonoma. It was running really hot at over 90℃ playing a few youtube videos. Applying new thermal paste brought those temps down below 85℃, not to mention lowered the fan noise
You might find 4k editing possible after that maintenance.
Great idea! The thought crossed my mind. I should definitely do that.
I once had a 13" 2011 Macbook Pro. It had a replaceable 2.5" HDD/SSD, replaceable RA; (2 Sticks) a replaceable battery and a fully replaceable DVD drive. HOW is it possible that a 16" M3 Macbook Pro has not a single upgradable component and less components overall?
$$$ at the cost of customer satisfaction
Integrated SOC's with 1000x the performance per watt. Win some, lose some.
I have the same 2012 MBP. I could not ditch the CD/DVD drive prob because of the need to use CD or DVD for the VM Oses under Parallel. Or probably because I am too lazy :).
Can always use an ISO instead of disc!
Weird, I have a 2012 MBP and it complains when I attempt to upgrade Mac OS.
Need open core legacy patcher to upgrade
This was 100% the golden age, peaking up until mid-2015, just before the butterfly keyboard generation were introduced. Ever since then, I feel like apple's design choices just haven't been anywhere near as solid.
I mean as powerful as the new M-Series chips are, we have ugly-ass notches on laptops and even the software if suffering, with them trying to make MacOS like iOS.
Yeah i hear good things about the performance of the m chips but i have very little experience with them or the newer hardware. Hoping to find one myself somewhere in the future...
This lasted me 10 years.