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by no1youknowz 3588 days ago
I have a 2012 Macbook Pro. It does everything I need it to do and it's my primary machine.

Whilst I don't need another one. I would love to see a refresh with a better graphics card. Something like a Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080M. Purely for VR and then hoping to see Oculus development with it. I'm probably wishing at this point as well.

Sure a better CPU, more RAM, bigger SSD would be nice. But right now, neither of them can really justify a replacement. Everything works just fine with what I have now!
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drinchev 3588 days ago
Mine is 2011 i7 2.8Ghz. I upgraded it with 16 Gigs RAM & Samsung SSD. It's simply amazing.

I'm really sad that those new models are not-upgradable. I was looking for a new laptop ( because my battery is giving up ) and I'm disappointed that Apple is soldering the RAM.

I hope if there are new MacBook Pro's they will also upgrade friendly.

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toyg 3588 days ago
Regarding RAM, with laptops, you're often restricted by what the chipset will actually support, and that's the case for MBPs (still 16 GB as far as I know). Soldering or no soldering, that's the real problem.

The actual bitch is soldered battery. Mine (2012 MBPr) is still giving me two to three hours, depending on workload (and sticking to Safari for browsing, which makes a massive difference in power consumption), but a replacement would make me more comfortable. I can't imagine what Apple would make me pay for that.

A secondary annoyance is the proprietary SSD interface, which dramatically restricts the choice of hd vendors (for my model, I think the total number of vendors is still 1; I believe a couple of other vendors do support more recent models). I currently live in fear of this disk giving up the ghost before Apple will actually release a new MBP worth buying.

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collias 3588 days ago
I'm in the exact same boat. The GeForce 650M is really the only component showing any signs of aging. Everything else is still running great.

I used to be an Apple skeptic, but the fact that my almost-5-year-old laptop still feels completely adequate for everything I need to do (iOS dev) makes it a lot easier to justify dropping nearly $2k on it.

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