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Pity. I was considering it as a replacement for my 2010 15" MBP. I'm slowly getting tired of the random kernel panics.

Come to think of it, has anyone tried to disable the NVIDIA graphics card in the 2010 15" MBP by moving the driver (.kext) somewhere where the OS cannot find it? If that gets rid of the kernel panics then I think I'd just buy more RAM and an SSD.

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Yeah, disabling the discrete card made a huge difference to my laptop's stability (also 2010 15" MBP with NVIDIA GT 330M). There's an open-source app called gfxCardStatus [0] that lets you switch between integrated and discrete from the menubar.

On 10.12 the original app doesn't work properly, but one of its forks [1] fixes the issue.

[0] https://github.com/codykrieger/gfxCardStatus

[1] https://github.com/steveschow/gfxCardStatus/releases

Thanks! I'll give that a shot.

Don't listen to the reviews here. My MBP 15" (late-2016) is fine. I get all day battery life too. You can return it Jan 8th if it doesn't work for you. Hearing complaints from people who never used it is tiring.

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