Mid 2015 15" MBP, still good buy?

Gung Pow Chicken · June 13, 2019

Well long story short, my GS63 got smashed in a car accident, the person at fault's insurance reimbursed me what they feel it was worth which leaves me with $1000 bucks to get a new daily carry machine. I've already got 2 P52's one with a Xeon and 128GB RAM so I don't need anything to powerful. Just portable with decent battery life. I loved my 13" Mid-2012 MBP, it had an i7 and 16GB RAM, but I had to sell it for some pretty stupid reasons.

I'm looking at getting a Mid 2015 Retina MBP, it currently has 16GB RAM, i7, and a 256GB SSD. I have a spare 1TB SSD for this gen of MBP laying around I would be installing if I purchased it. What are your opinions, is it still a good buy or should i look at other machines.

Thanks

zlolslavez · June 13, 2019

I'd say it's a good buy. Louis Rossman (however you spell that) actually recommends to get the 2014 model because of some issue with the 2015 one that I can't remember off the top of my head (he very recently posted a video about this), but I don't think it was big enough of a deal.

Gung Pow Chicken · June 13, 2019

I've done MBP board repair's over the years, so I'm comfortable with fixing the Green Light issues, or whatever other issues arise

He's actually one of the people I watched to learn a bit more on MBP repair, and who guided me to buy all of my soldering tools. on top of that I've taken soldering classes.

The MBP also comes with a 3 Yr warranty, I'm currently in the works of finding out what that will all cover.

I mainly want this one for the 4770HQ lol