2012 MacBook Pro - project ideas

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Hi
I have a pretty decent 2012/3 MacBook Pro and I’d love to do something fun with it rather than it go to the MacBook graveyard.
Don’t mind completely wiping it and trying something different. Any ideas??
 
My mid-2014 is on Sequoia using OCLP and is my main laptop for browsing, SSH etc…! Still love it. If they get Tahoe working then I imagine that will be its last OS as Intel support will be gone after 26 I believe. So it’s days are numbered as I don’t want to use it with really outdated software.

What exact model is it?

I agree with the above though - these machines of this age are usually super easy to get working well on Linux and often the displays and specs are still good enough for light everyday use for someone.
 
If you're a car guy, it would make for a decent enough diagnostics laptop for scanning your car/coding, as you can run Windows on it.
 
alex24 said:
My mid-2014 is on Sequoia using OCLP and is my main laptop for browsing, SSH etc…! Still love it. If they get Tahoe working then I imagine that will be its last OS as Intel support will be gone after 26 I believe. So it’s days are numbered as I don’t want to use it with really outdated software.

What exact model is it?

I agree with the above though - these machines of this age are usually super easy to get working well on Linux and often the displays and specs are still good enough for light everyday use for someone.
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I suppose conceivably if you are careful modern browsers will probably support that version of macOS for quite some time.
 
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Possibly, but that doesn’t discount other security issues at OS level and support for other apps, although I will probably stay with safari for convenience of the ecosystem. I mean it’s from 2014 I’m happy to have had my moneys worth from it already as a primary machine. However I won’t replace it until I have to as it’s still great!
 
alex24 said:
Possibly, but that doesn’t discount other security issues at OS level and support for other apps, although I will probably stay with safari for convenience of the ecosystem. I mean it’s from 2014 I’m happy to have had my moneys worth from it already as a primary machine. However I won’t replace it until I have to as it’s still great!
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Safari I think tends to be supported on one previous version of macOS so you might be okay for some time yet.
 
I had a mid 2013 13" 8gb mbp, I put arch on it, pihole and alloy,loki,grafana on it and use it as network gateway. Power consumption wise not a super efficient setup but it works well.
 
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