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I have a 2011 MBP too. It's basically retired to desktop-only status, due to a dying keyboard (which had a good life, I'm not complaining) and a dying hinge. I
by beat 8y ago
I have a 2011 MBP too. It's basically retired to desktop-only status, due to a dying keyboard (which had a good life, I'm not complaining) and a dying hinge. I don't want to risk $3000 on another Macbook that might be nothing but grief. I've had three different CPU-intensive things trapping me on the platform - programming, photo editing (Lightroom mostly), and recording/mixing music. But Lightroom and reasonable music DAW solutions are available on the iPad now, and they no longer feel like compromises. And programming? Just push the heavy lifting into the cloud.
Sometime in the near future, I'm just cutting over to an iPad for the majority of my work, I think.
- mcv 8y agoCPU and graphics are sadly the only things I can't upgrade about my old MBP. It's got 1 TB SSD and 16 GB RAM now, which makes it feel a lot younger than it really is. I also don't have any problems with keyboards and hinges yet, so I'm hoping this one will still last me a long time, but I'm getting increasingly aware that I should prepare for a replacement. This can't last forever. (I also replaced the fans because they were too noisy, but that didn't help. Closing browser tabs did help though. I still haven't replaced the battery, despite it's been telling me for years now that it needs to be replaced. I don't think there's anything else that can be replaced.)