the laptop works just fine even today (2.5 Ghz intel i7), 8GB Ram and 512GB SSD. Other than the fact that its a bit heavy compared to the new MacBooks it works fine for everyday tasks. The keyboard is superb!
I am looking to understand what all I can do with this laptop. I could sell it to some kid but I feel with the unsupported hardware and OS I am duping them? Other option is I can give it to apple - while they won't pay me they will recycle it.
My Questions:
* What are folks doing when they encounter this situation? Linux? kids? some other interesting project?
* Do you follow any rules where after certain x amount of time, you simply trade in the apple hardware so as to get something reasonable for it and use it towards the next hardware. In essence have a certain amount of 'working capital' that is constantly used towards the hardware but that capital is < than the full price of the laptop (due to the trade in money gotten as part of every trade in cycle)
It's working fine, though you need to live with the fact that it's now a "compromised" system.
Giving it to a kid is another option. It will run Linux just fine.
The last one without ram soldered to the board so you can upgrade it.
It's still my daily driver in 2020 with 16gb ram and an ssd.
I was looking at the 2020-MBP with the new keyboard but beyond some graphics/performance improvements in games, I'm not seeing a compelling argument to upgrade.
Having it on the LAN plugged into some external hard drives as a no-additional-spend NAS might work.
Too bad such an expensive computer at the time its barely unusable specially on XCode.