2012 MacBook Pro £250 Birmingham

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This was bought new on NYE 2012 from the Apple Store in Birmingham. It’s always worked faultlessly and has always been well looked after.

 

It has a new SSD installed by an accredited Apple service centre about 5 years ago, and had a new hard drive cable fitted about 9 months ago.

 

It’s in pretty good cosmetic condition, except for a small dink in the one corner.

 

It has only ever been used for music creation using Logic Pro and Reaper. It works fabulously.

 

I teach music production and composition at a music college and take my MacBook in with me every day. I therefore bought a new and much lighter MacBook Air for this, otherwise I would still be using this one.

 

It comes complete with the power supply and a selection of good quality carry cases/sleeves.

 

I would prefer collection from Birmingham where prospective buyers can try before they buy.

 

The ‘cat’ by the Apple logo is just a sticker that will peel off.

[Owen]

I am telling myself that I do not need this. What is the RAM content? Is it user uprgradable? SSD size? Thanks. 

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57 minutes ago, Owen said:

I am telling myself that I do not need this. What is the RAM content? Is it user uprgradable? SSD size? Thanks. 

I’ve taken screenshots for you.

 

I believe on this model you can increase the RAM. To be honest, I’ve never felt the need to. Some of my PhD work was running some pretty large Logic Pro projects with 60 or 70 tracks, it never missed a beat.

[paul_5]

Nice tidy example of a great machine. The RAM is indeed updatable and doesn't require any specialist tools or indeed any experience, just a small enough screwdriver to get the base plate off.

 

This model will take 16GB, but the BIG improvement to these machines is installing a solid state dive, which you've already done.

 

I have an identical machine on my lap right now!

Edited July 25, 2023 by paul_5

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6 minutes ago, paul_5 said:

Nice tidy example of a great machine. The RAM is indeed updatable and doesn't require any specialist tools or indeed any experience, just a small enough screwdriver to get the base plate off.

 

This model will take 16GB, but the BIG improvement to these machines is installing a solid state dive, which you've already done.

 

I have an identical machine on my lap right now!

I lecture in music production in a music college. A colleague of mine has exactly the same model from the same year that he uses every day, for work and music production. I think 2012 was a particularly good year for MacBooks.

 

The only reason I switched is that I travel to work by bus and train, and wanted something lighter. I did consider keeping this one as a spare or for live work. It seems a bit daft to just keep it sitting in a cupboard unused though.

[2pods]

What's the processor ?

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7 minutes ago, 2pods said:

What's the processor ?

 

Intel. This gives more information.

 

https://support.apple.com/kb/SP649?locale=en_GB

[2pods]

Thanks

[flippyfloop]

Is this the i5 or i7 processor?

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1 hour ago, flippyfloop said:

Is this the i5 or i7 processor?

 

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