How to refurbish a 2012 13-inch MacBook Pro

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..In this refurbishment tutorial, we’ll look at how to refurbish a 2012 MacBook Pro 13-inch. The model we’ll be looking at is the MacBook Pro Core i7 2.9 GHz Mid-2012 model with Apple identifiers of MD102LL/A – MacBookPro9,2 – A1278 – 2554…

There are a number of these models used on eBay for around $300 today. Although they can’t do everything modern Macs can, they can still be useful considering the low cost.

Essentially the same process and steps apply to the 15-inch non-Retina 2012 MacBook Pro as well, although they may vary slightly.

These models are limited to running macOS 10.15 Catalina maximum and can be upgraded to 16GB of RAM. Older RAM is cheap now and you can get a 16GB upgrade on Amazon for around $17.

You’ll also need a new 2.5-inch SATA SSD drive to replace the existing hard drive. 1TB SSDs are cheap currently – ranging between $35 and $60 dollars on most online retailers…

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Its quite do-able with a paltry outlay and actually has an Ethernet port, if memory serves me right, its Metal Graphics and thus will certainly run Ventura supported with OCLP alas the “Juries still out” on running OS Sonoma with development ongoing by the OCLP developers. As well as win7? Certainly 8.1, Win 10 probably and Win11 with a bit of tweaking. If you want a “Cheap and Cheerful runabout” until the end of the Apple Intel era you can’t do much better. Local small Ads will often reveal better bargains than Ebay but do your reading before purchase as they are now all over 10 years old and some may have had hard lives, its a laptop after all; Despite treating all my mobile Computing machines with all due deference, the road life is a hard life.

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