Mid-2012 Unibody MacBook Pro Review - The Hidden Gem Everyone Forgets About!
Welcome back to another video! In today’s episode we take a look at one of Apple’s lesser known MacBooks hidden in plain sight for years. Being able to run Mac OS X Catalina is a major selling point for used buyers, but how far can the usefulness of a 10+ year old Apple product stretch? Watch on to find out!
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I have a few of these 2012 MBP and love them. Still beautiful and super easy to upgrade. After upgrading them to 500GB SSD and put 16GB Ram, which cost about $60, they are great to put parallel and then older versions of Windows like 98, XP, and Windows 7 to be able to run older windows programs.
@RealElementProductions
5 күн бұрын
That’s awesome! It’s nice how capable older programs are minus all the AI and internet connected blubber. Also nice is that the Ivy Bridge CPUs in these MacBooks are the last to support Windows XP natively which means you theoretically could install it as a standalone OS. I’m learning about more and more uses for these every day. :)
The headphone jack is also a digital output. You can get a 3.5mm to toslink cable to connect it to an external DAC or amplifier with a quality onboard DAC.
@RealElementProductions
2 күн бұрын
@@alistermccallum I’ve always noticed audio output from MacBooks is significantly louder and clearer than most, if not all PCs I’ve ever used. That’s an awesome tidbit, thanks for sharing!
Wow! This 12 year old mac has all the features I need to have for a machine so called `laptop`.
@RealElementProductions
8 күн бұрын
Yep! Get one before they’re all gone :)
I threw in a 2012 MacBook Pro logic board into a 2011 case with the network card upgraded to what's in the 2012 Macs. Thought the logic board was dead, nope, it was perfectly fine, and I really see how good these are. Not putting the 2011 logic board back into it's original case any time soon, macOS Sonoma runs well, and Windows 10 runs better than some of the Windows PCs being sold today, even Windows 11 ran really well, but the bootcamp driver stuff causing the Mac to blue screen made me go back to Windows 10.
@RealElementProductions
3 күн бұрын
@@iPodee That’s awesome. The possibilities are endless with the metal supported integrated graphics. The blue screen in W11 must be due to the lack of TPM 2.0, no way around that but to install it directly but Sonoma is an awesome candidate for a future video! Thanks for the insight, you’ve probably saved a lot of people time
Super easy to add ram and a SSD. OCLP allows users to upgrade to Monterey or Sonoma and Linux also works well.
@RealElementProductions
9 сағат бұрын
@@a.lawrence4969 Thanks for the information. I completely neglected to mention it’s great Linux support. This is a golden comment, thanks!
HAHA! I'm watching your video on one hooked up to a Samsung monitor! Yes, I have a newer MBP but this one is my fav and it still does just fine.
@RealElementProductions
6 күн бұрын
I have newer MacBooks too but I know long after they fail I’ll have this one to fall back on. You should see the huge PowerPC community that’s still using their old iBooks and PowerMacs for upwards of 20 years!
Nobody wants this bulky piece of aluminum
@RealElementProductions
7 күн бұрын
Best anti-theft device ever
@kingech_B15
6 күн бұрын
@@RealElementProductions lol, but we came so far it's great to appreciate it doh.