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Is the Macbook 13" mid 2012 useable in 2018

Bezalel6
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Hi guys just wondering if any of u have some expireance with the Macbook 13" mid 2012

In 2018

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I had one until last year, it was hideously slow but if you put an SSD in it should be fine

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I have an ssd in mine and 8gb of ram so yeah. If it still had a hdd, I think I would've died before certain load times. EDIT: currently typing on one rn too. I also love the keyboard on this one more than any other macbook.

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I am actually not sure if i should buy a chromebook (probably the r11) or this chromebook....

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Only get it if you intend to throw some RAM and an SSD into it. Upgrades are easy so don't worry about that. One thing I would keep in mind is the battery. Do you need long battery life? A used laptop obviously won't get you good battery life.

 

If battery life is important to you, go with a Chromebook. Or a windows laptop that has decent battery life. Personally I'm in love with my Macbook Air. Five years in and it's still going strong. But that's a hard recommendation to make in 2018 because the current Macbook Air is very outdated (but still manages to not be in dongle hell which is something I like).

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Is really depend on what are you using it for.

 

Streaming TV/youtube, word doc, etc should be fine.

Gaming, solving world hunger, detecting ET, etc probably not

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