[zubiaur]

I love mine, it has a fresh battery OEM battery as well. Runs the latest OS with OpenCore Legacy. But it's starting to get a bit annoying. Usable, but it is starting to feel slowish, the fan kicks up frequently.

I might still keep it another year or so, which is a testament to how good it is and how relative little progress has happened in almost 10 years.

[a2l3aQ]

If I still had my 2015 I would have applied some liquid metal TIM by now, I did a paste refresh and that worked very well to get the fan under control.

[swiftuser]

Did you disassemble the fan assembly? And applied new thermal paste?

I'm not using mine any more, but I noticed a big difference when I replaced the battery and got all the dust out this spring. Also installed a new battery. Still quite a hard sell on the used market :)

[talldayo]

If it's got a full function row, it will probably work just fine under Linux. My 2014 MBP chugged pretty hard with OpenCore but handles modern Linux distros much better.

[magarnicle]

Same, the jump to the last few OS versions is not pleasant. Do you get good battery life on Linux with it?