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The new models are rated at 7 hours of battery power, and they use Bluetooth 4.0 along with 802.11n WiFi for wireless connectivity. The 13″ MBP design puts all the ports on the left side, leaving the right side for the SATA SuperDrive. This is one of the first Macs to use Intel HD 4000 Graphics, and the Intel GPU uses 384 MB of system memory.
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The base 13″ model now runs a 2.5 GHz dual-core Core i5 processor (with Turbo Boost to 3.1 GHz) and has 4 GB of system memory and a 500 GB hard drive with an $1,199 price tag, while the “better” version moves to a 2.9 GHz i7 CPU (3.6 GHz with Turbo Boost), doubles system memory to 8 GB, and includes a 750 GB hard drive.Īpple offers a few build-to-order options: Upgrade system memory from 4 GB to 8 GB for $100 on the base model, and/or choose a higher capacity or faster hard drive or an SSD.
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The 2012 MacBook Pro adopts Intel’s newest, more efficient Ivy Bridge processor technology, which incorporates Intel HD Graphics 4000 (up to 60% faster, according to Apple) in the CPU. The new HD camera also supports today’s widescreen displays, and the native screen resolution of 1280 x 800 is the same as before.
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There’s also an improved webcam, the 720p FaceTime HD camera with three times the resolution of previous MacBook FaceTime cameras. Best of all, Apple uses the same port for USB 2.0 and 3.0, while the standard in the PC world is separate ports for each protocol. There are a lot of USB 3.0 drives on the market, and they are far more affordable than Thunderbolt drives. The USB 3.0 specification is over 10x as fast as USB 2.0 and has half the bandwidth of Thunderbolt.
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However, I will never again own a computing device that will work as hard, as reliably, for such a long time as my trusty mid 2012 15" MBP.For the first time, Macs have built-in USB 3.0 support. The new M series processors are a harbinger that the time for such a change is approaching sooner than later. I am aware that eventually, I will have to break down and buy a new MBP. While the new MBPs are lighter and have longer battery life, they hold little performance edge over this machine in my day to day use of the machine as INTEL has done little to really advance processors in a meaningful way over the years since this machine was designed. This machine is fast, reliable and delight to use. The logic board nor the display on this machine have ever faltered. I upgraded the machine to Big Sur using a popular patching program along with an upgrade to the latest Broadcom WiFi/BT card (thanks to an enterprising young man) and am running 11.2 currently with no issues outside the ones that are plaguing even the newest MBPs. Both fans have been replaced and most recently I replaced the right side speakers as the woofer section had started to rattle. I have replaced the keyboard only ONCE in that entire time. The 1TB HDD is still used as an in-machine Time Machine drive for Big Sur. I upgraded to 1TB SSD and a 1TB HDD and moved to APFS once Catalina came along using the HDD as an in-machine daily clone backup drive (used SuperDuper until Big Sur negated the ability to easily create a bootable clone). I upgraded the SSD to a larger one and rolled the SSD and HDD into a FUSION drive using the tools apple made available to anyone comfortable with the command line, which I ran with zero issues for several years. I swapped out the super drive (CD/DVD burner) for an SSD (initially a relatively small one to just hold the OS). I upgraded the HDD several times (started life as a 256MB HDD).
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This machine has a full compliment of ports with NO dongles needed! I upgraded the ram over time to its max 16GB. This machine was the last of the totally user repairable notebooks Apple made. Without question, a fine example of solid engineering. My daughter gave me this machine as a christmas present in late 2012.
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I am among those still using a mid 2012 non-retina 15" MBP.