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I’m still using a 15” MBP from 2012 for my personal computer! Waiting to see if a 15” MacBook Air gets released soon, as per the rumors.

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Me too. I'll be looking at what gets released this year and decide to buy. I think it's safe to say after 11 years of daily, and rather extensive use, it's time to update! Problem is, it just continues to work so daggone well!

I would say wait. If you're not stressed at work and the machine does what you want it to do then perfect! I usually get to aroun ~7 years before upgrade but 11 would be amazing.

The new models are so fast it's like magic compared to those older models. Even if they have SSDs.

I would be if the mobo hadn't died unexpectedly! Such a great machine and with 16 GB, worked fabulously. My work-provided 8 GB 13" MBP M1, OTOH, presents me with momentary SPODs at least twice a day.

Last year I upgraded from a early 2013 15" MBP to the 16" Max and it's like a whole new world. Way more storage and memory. I can imagine going from the same machine to the M2 would be amazing but from M1 to M2 not enough of a bump to pay the price.

Last year I upgraded to an M1 Pro; this year a coworker took that machine and I bumped up to an M2 Max. I can't really tell a difference.

Not surprising. M1 pro -> m1 max = same number of cores at the same speed. So only if you are doing something CPU intensive and not cache friendly would you notice the memory bandwidth doubling.

M1 generation -> M2 generation is a pretty small difference, not something you'd normally notice. In my experience unless using a stopwatch or running benchmarks folks don't usually notice improvements till they get into the 1.5 to 2x range.

I have one of the too, it’s great but _might_ upgrade soon.

The Macbook Air that's out right now is like 13.6 inches. The screen is much better than the 2012 models, so with the resolution it will feel as big probably if not bigger.

But the Air has a lower resolution than a 15inch 2012 MBP? 2880 by 1800 vs 2560 x 1664.

I switched from a 15” Intel to a 14” M1. The screen is WAY better, but certainly somewhat smaller. As you note, pixels are still pixels.

As big as rumored 15" or as big as 2012 13"? Both does not make sense.

Cybersecurity dawg. Unless you are running Linux on it, you are at least 10x more at risk of a worm like penetration than something running a up to date OS.

He's running the latest os lol

The newest macOSes aren't available for HW that old. My 2015 MBP is already in the death row, update-wise.

Later versions of macOS can be installed on older hardware than is officially supported by Apple, by using OpenCore Legacy Patcher: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

It can run Catalina (10.15). That was getting support up until November 2022. While it is past its end of life, it isn't something that is half a decade out of support.

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