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| Click here to select a new forum. | | I got so lucky! 2011 MacBook Pro | Posted by: IlikeTech on 2017-12-21 19:52:09
Someone fairly recently gave me a MacBook Pro 2011 15 inch with what was thought to be the dreaded GPU failure. I helped them pull the hard drive, and they took it to get data off of it. I took it home, and with a little testing determined that there was nothing wrong with it and it just needed a clean install. I suspect that it had never had that happen. I informed the person that there was nothing wrong with it, but they had already got a new laptop, so I got to keep it. For the price of an SSD and the upgrade from 4 to 6GBs of memory. I have a very good laptop running High Sierra!
I still can't believe that someone gave me a free, working, 500 dollar laptop!!!
It is now my daily driver and I am very happy with it. In fact, I am writing this post from it. The only thing I will need to do at some point is replace the battery because it is getting a bit old. It lasts about an hour and a half now.
| Posted by: PB145B on 2017-12-21 21:07:06
Congratulations! The 2011 MacBook Pro’s are still very usable machines. I’ve had my late 2011 13” since new and still love it! When it started getting sluggish I put an SSD in it and now it runs better than it ever has!
| Posted by: CC_333 on 2017-12-23 22:29:01
Yes, and the 2009's are pretty good too, though they are beginning to show their age a bit (I used a 15" 2009 from early 2010 through mid 2015, and while it kept up really nicely, it was starting to chug a bit while browsing the internet).
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