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My wife has a 2012 MBP, which is usable because I upgraded the RAM to 16GB and added an SSD. I had limited experience and use of macOS, but didn't like it much

My wife has a 2012 MBP, which is usable because I upgraded the RAM to 16GB and added an SSD. I had limited experience and use of macOS, but didn't like it much. I bought the Air last month under duress, because I was going to a place that's 10°C warmer than my home, and my laptop's GPU passes the idle quiet threshold. I have tinnitus, so the laptop fan noise becomes unbearable. I'm enjoying using the Mac, I mainly develop in Rust, so the experience has been mostly good. I've had a few hard crashes of other software that restarted the machine, that's fine though. I still mainly remote into my beefy Windows desktop in the other room, but I haven't needed to turn on my work laptop as Microsoft also updated Office to work on Arm64. I didn't know about Parallels, I'll try it out, as sometimes I can't remote into my desktop conveniently.

thefz 6y ago
> My wife has a 2012 MBP, which is usable because I upgraded the RAM to 16GB and added an SSD. More or less same story with my previous Mid 2009 13'' MBP. The only reason why it has survived this long is because I've been able to add RAM, replace an SSD, replace the battery twice and replace a faulty touchpad too. Sadly this is no longer possible and modern Apple laptops are increasingly harder to repair.
- nevi-me 6y ago
  Yea, Apple has great build quality. I have a 2013 HP Envy 17 that's also survived because of the ability to replace (keyboard, battery 2x, SSD). Its chassis has unfortunately started collapsing, but I want to fix it and donate it to a relative. I hope these newer Macs that have everything soldered together, at least last 4-5 years. I'm going to try get a Mac as my next work device, maybe 2 years from now, so my wife can use my current one in future.