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The 2012/13 MacBook Pros are still the pinnacle of laptop design. 7 years later I’m still using them (work and personal) with no issues or battery life problem

The 2012/13 MacBook Pros are still the pinnacle of laptop design. 7 years later I’m still using them (work and personal) with no issues or battery life problems (original battery). The keyboard feels good, the trackpad is amazing, I love the MagSafe charger, and a decent screen. Upgrade the internals, give me a better screen, and if there is space a bigger battery all in the same form factor and as a professional it would be a no brainer purchase. They can feel free to experiment/innovate with the MacBook and MacBook Air lines of laptops. But the MacBook Pro should utilize tried and true technology that has been successful on a different MacBook line for a few years.

mclightning 8y ago
I am in same boat. I have got the newest MBP with touchbar from work, and I have my own 2013 model MBP Retina. Everything feels just right with the old one. The size of touchpad, tactile feeling of the keys. Only downside I feel is; old one feels a tiny bit heavier now.
kalleboo 8y ago
> They can feel free to experiment/innovate with the MacBook and MacBook Air lines of laptops. But the MacBook Pro should utilize tried and true technology that has been successful on a different MacBook line for a few years. This is what gets me. Yes I get Apple wants to make a super sleek ultra-thin machine. But that's what the "Air" brand is for! In a Pro line you can sacrifice some weight and thickness. It's not as if the Apple of today even cares about SKU bloat anymore. My pet peeve with the MacBook Pros is the thermal throttling. I run into this ALL THE TIME, and I'm not even that heavy of a user. Start doing anything slightly taxing when charging the battery from zero in a room that's over 25 C ("summer") and the heat from the charging will kick it into throttle-o-rama. Second pet peeve is battery life. They cut down the battery life from the FAA maximum on the recent generations because hey, "safari web browsing and Pages productivity hits our 10 hour goal". That doesn't help me compiling shit in Xcode! I recently bought an old PowerBook G3 to play with MacOS 9 and that thing almost gets the same 4 hour battery life my MBP 2017 does on a 20 year old New Old Stock battery.
- yazaddaruvala 8y ago
  Lol yeah Xcode or IntelliJ kill batteries. I’m ok with that tho batteries are for meetings and such. I agree about thermals. Better venting should be a priority! That is one thing they should improve on the 2012 MacBook Pro form factor.

mclightning 8y ago

I am in same boat. I have got the newest MBP with touchbar from work, and I have my own 2013 model MBP Retina. Everything feels just right with the old one. The size of touchpad, tactile feeling of the keys. Only downside I feel is; old one feels a tiny bit heavier now.

kalleboo 8y ago

> They can feel free to experiment/innovate with the MacBook and MacBook Air lines of laptops. But the MacBook Pro should utilize tried and true technology that has been successful on a different MacBook line for a few years. This is what gets me. Yes I get Apple wants to make a super sleek ultra-thin machine. But that's what the "Air" brand is for! In a Pro line you can sacrifice some weight and thickness. It's not as if the Apple of today even cares about SKU bloat anymore. My pet peeve with the MacBook Pros is the thermal throttling. I run into this ALL THE TIME, and I'm not even that heavy of a user. Start doing anything slightly taxing when charging the battery from zero in a room that's over 25 C ("summer") and the heat from the charging will kick it into throttle-o-rama. Second pet peeve is battery life. They cut down the battery life from the FAA maximum on the recent generations because hey, "safari web browsing and Pages productivity hits our 10 hour goal". That doesn't help me compiling shit in Xcode! I recently bought an old PowerBook G3 to play with MacOS 9 and that thing almost gets the same 4 hour battery life my MBP 2017 does on a 20 year old New Old Stock battery.

yazaddaruvala 8y ago
Lol yeah Xcode or IntelliJ kill batteries. I’m ok with that tho batteries are for meetings and such. I agree about thermals. Better venting should be a priority! That is one thing they should improve on the 2012 MacBook Pro form factor.