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That's why I did this on an external disk, knowing the reliance on me actually being able to use the machine for work. I am dreading that 2012 finally giving u

That's why I did this on an external disk, knowing the reliance on me actually being able to use the machine for work. I am dreading that 2012 finally giving up. It's a MacBookPro9,1 with 2.6GHz i7. I put a 1TB SATA3 SSD in and 16GB RAM like you - still going strong. I am impressed how I've got 8 years of life out of the thing, and it's like new other than the plastic shroud under the screen. I don't know what I will get when it finally dies - you? I notice that my 2017 isn't any different in daily use; in fact the 2017 battery life is worse and I can hear the fan a lot of the time compared to my 2012.

neurostimulant 7y ago
> I don't know what I will get when it finally dies - you? Every year I've been waiting for apple to finally release a good mbp. The specs for the new 16 inch mbp seems great on paper (but without any user-upgradeable parts like the 2012, but that ship has sailed), so I'm waiting to see if any major issue shows up before getting one (probably early next year). The backup option if the 16 inch mbp turns out to be no good is building a kvm-based hackintosh with gpu pass-through. I could fully migrate to linux, but still need MacOS for iOS app development so this system might works for me.
- 72deluxe 7y ago
  I'd be interested in the KVM-based Hackintosh - got any reading material? I won an 8086k processor (thanks Intel) and the machine is not taxed heavily (other than C++ dev in Windows and gaming) so any options for multiplatform development are always interesting to me. Now to investigate the associated licencing issues!
  - neurostimulant 7y ago
    I actually hasn't tried it yet, but people are posting their kvm hackintosh setup on github, like this one: https://github.com/yoonsikp/macos-kvm-pci-passthrough https://github.com/yoonsikp/macos-kvm-pci-passthrough People also reported great performance with hypervisors like esxi. I plan to try both methods and see which one works best for me.
    - 72deluxe 7y ago
      Thanks!

neurostimulant 7y ago

> I don't know what I will get when it finally dies - you? Every year I've been waiting for apple to finally release a good mbp. The specs for the new 16 inch mbp seems great on paper (but without any user-upgradeable parts like the 2012, but that ship has sailed), so I'm waiting to see if any major issue shows up before getting one (probably early next year). The backup option if the 16 inch mbp turns out to be no good is building a kvm-based hackintosh with gpu pass-through. I could fully migrate to linux, but still need MacOS for iOS app development so this system might works for me.

72deluxe 7y ago
I'd be interested in the KVM-based Hackintosh - got any reading material? I won an 8086k processor (thanks Intel) and the machine is not taxed heavily (other than C++ dev in Windows and gaming) so any options for multiplatform development are always interesting to me. Now to investigate the associated licencing issues!
- neurostimulant 7y ago
  I actually hasn't tried it yet, but people are posting their kvm hackintosh setup on github, like this one: https://github.com/yoonsikp/macos-kvm-pci-passthrough https://github.com/yoonsikp/macos-kvm-pci-passthrough People also reported great performance with hypervisors like esxi. I plan to try both methods and see which one works best for me.
  - 72deluxe 7y ago
    Thanks!