How long will my 15” 2015 MacBook Pro last

Deleted member 77746 · 2 Jun 2018 at 15:45

b0rn2sk8 said:
The MacBook Air is a dog of a machine, don’t do it unless it gets a proper re-design.

Disagree. It’s a flawless machine. I’m very happy and mines still running from 2011 as it should. No slow downs like you get with Windows.

aowc02 · 2 Jun 2018 at 16:05

Macbook air is for a specific type of user - that needs to access emails and light productivity (office tasks).

Its aimed at the business user who travels around a lot.

a job it does extremely well with bullet proof reliability

Raymond Lin · 3 Jun 2018 at 19:23

Minstadave said:
Yup plenty of power there for a couple more years.

My wife is still using a 2013 MBP and it feels fresh still.

2010 here, although it’s too old to run the latest copy of Lightroom! So I’m having to upgrade out of necessity, but 8 years is a good run.

Lakeland · 3 Jun 2018 at 19:42

My 2012 macbook pro is still going strong, feels as fast as the day I bought it.

Deleted member 77746 · 4 Jun 2018 at 21:31

Lucky you will get the new 104 Mojave update. I won't. They have dropped support for anything below a 2012.

manic111 · 8 Jun 2018 at 00:28

2011 MBP here, still happy with it having added an SSD! Although I'm in the market for something lighter when I'm out and about.

Throrik · 10 Jun 2018 at 16:15

aowc02 said:
Macbook air is for a specific type of user - that needs to access emails and light productivity (office tasks).

Its aimed at the business user who travels around a lot.

a job it does extremely well with bullet proof reliability

It does handle the more intensive functions pretty well too - programming, virtual machines, vagrant, containers are just some of the things I do with my 2013 MBA - admittedly the fans do power on every now and then but that’s to be expected I push it pretty hard and rarely notice a slowdown. Not bad for the specs although I wouldn’t recommend one at the moment as people have said they’ve not been truly updated for years now and the screen is easily the worst thing about it.

antc · 12 Jun 2018 at 17:46

manic111 said:
2011 MBP here, still happy with it having added an SSD! Although I'm in the market for something lighter when I'm out and about.

2011 15 inch here too, popped a 512gb SSD and 16gb Ram in it a few years back and its still going great. GFX card huffs and puffs in LR and PS sometimes but aside from that its sat powering a 1440p Screen on my desk and has been for some time. Solid machine and had zero issues with it.

Thaifood · 20 Jun 2018 at 09:03

Got a 13” MacBook Pro late 2013 I think and still does everything I need it to do no problems at all and still feels fast

chroniclard · 20 Jun 2018 at 09:24

my 2011 macbook pro is knackered, slow as hell(windows and that crappy OSX both slow), even with an SSD, so much so I robbed the SSD out of it and just slung it in a cupboard for now.

Something seriously wrong with it.

snow patrol · 20 Jun 2018 at 09:42

im running a 2009 15" MBP here. Installed a ssd a couple of years back. It's fine really, although things like photoshop or lightroom are pretty slow these days.

pingwing · 22 Jun 2018 at 06:58

My 2012 15" mbp with retina screen is running nicely, the 650gtm has made sure I can play civ6 so I've got nothing to worry about!

Once I've given it a bit of a clean up/hover it'll be like new

The OP should easily get plenty of time out of that high spec machine

Beasty · 22 Jun 2018 at 10:39

Sounds like you use yours more intensively than I do but my 2012 i7 8gb rMBP is still a beast to be honest, just the battery is shot.

The kicker is obviously the solid state hard drive makes me struggle to justify a new one.

feck199 · 23 Jun 2018 at 09:41

late 2013 here, still going. But i'm going to need to wipe it as 320gb is taken up as 'system' with no localsnapshots... and it thinks i'm on low diskspace but classes over 200gb as purgeable.