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This “birb” guy should do a video with the weird guy with the crazy stories in all of those Dankpods videos.

My old laptop was dying so I got a mid-2012 non-retina. I love this thing. I upgraded the ram, replaced the battery and ssd and spent under $200 AUD overall. Really great machine.

Never imagine I’d see Dankpods review an old GPU around here. Loved it.

0:40 "These laptop cushions are a great way to ship things, especially laptops" - that was a good pun right there

I remember when these came out. At the time I was running a 17” and upgraded to this. My experience was that the retina screen was awesome, but after a while I got used to it and then got frustrated with the throttled performance.

Love the DankPods style segment at the end.

2012 that's when I bought the MacBook Pro I'm still using to this day, I opted for the non Retina matt display DVD drive version though, and it's still in great condition and going strong, I only ever upgraded the hard drive and RAM, i bought a 24" iMac last year and I wouldn't consider it any faster or anything tbh, it's quite shocking how little has changed in the last 10 years especially compared to the previous decade 2002-2012

10:48 why do I get dankpods vibes here 😅

I like how it went almost full dankpods there towards the end with the "test" video.

Great video to watch while eating on my desk.

The funny bit with the old graphics card really reminds me of DankPods, you guys should do a video together that would be dope

You and DankPods should collab at some point! You can take a look at some nuggets, or computers... or nugget computers lol

This 15 inch MacBook Pro Retina is quite literally my current computer. I purchased it on launch day, June 2012! Apart from the the fact that the battery is garbage, the thing somehow still works fine?! Actually insane. Intend on finally upgrading this year. 10 years for a computer - that's why you go Apple.

The 2012-2015 MBPs were the best Apple laptops until the M1s. I have a maxed out 15” from 2014 that has been the best laptop I ever owned. Just upgraded 8 years later and loving the new MBP 16”. Excellent keyboards too on those pre 2015s. The new MBP are like an upgraded pre 2015s which is what i wanted.

Its always a good day when Nathan uploads, my 2014 MacBook Pro served me well until it kernel panicked and then the screen never worked again...

Was the ending portion of the video a DankPods reference? It sounded like one of his videos. Absolutely hilarious regardless.

Love these old Macs, damn near bulletproof! I've got a 2013 macbook air that refuses to die after eight years

I bought one of these at the time. Upgraded to Ventura and still daily driving it for work as an IT consultant.

How is it that everytime, the day after I check if Psivewri uploaded, he uploads a new vid.

I love these videos, so relaxing to watch, great quality. All of the above, keep it up!

Wow! Love the video and…you beat me!! I actually got the same one, 15” first Retina display MBP….. and it needs a new battery!!! Was about to do a video on it once I get a new one in Spanish! And has some glitches on the display due to delamination…. Thank you, Psivewri!!! You are awesome!

I do these replacements all the time. I don't use the adhesive remover, I just wedge the plastic cards and shimmy it to break up the adhesive strips. I find this much cleaner.

The dankpods style voiceover 😂😅

Apple internals are so aesthetically pleasing

75% battery health after 10 years is pretty impressive! I recently replaced the battery in a ~2016 XPS 15 that had only 30% health, and probably saw a similar life to this...thankfully Dell didn't stick those batteries in with adhesive at least. (It also had thermal throttling issues which I solved with liquid metal...well worth the risk IMO).

My secondary computer is 15" 2011 MBP with all the bells and whistles(customized to order, like 256GB SSD, matte highres screen.. ) and I bought it used about a year ago I think. It's been barely used. Really solid machine with patched Catalina and disabled dedicated GPU, I use it really sparingly

i really like your video, for me this is kinda a relaxing video about repairing things

I have this model since 2012 when it released, still using it today. Very solid laptop.

Watching this on my 2015 13 inch MBP that I bought used last year, man. I lucked out something hard getting my one! Pretty much mint condition, and still runs the latest MacOS.

your restoration videos are so COOL Pog

I still have this model and use it as my main personal computer. A few upgrades here and there, and the magic of OpenCore, has this computer running the latest macOS Monterey and performing better than ever!

I been waiting for your new video for so long 😩

Wonderful! Great restoration! 😃

My girlfriend bought one of these in 2013, she has been using it daily ever since. I replaced the battery and keyboard once, but it is still a great machine for her needs (browsing & writing).

Another great video! Thanks for all your work. :)

The birb productions segment gave off a dankpods vibe

I have the mid 2012 Retina 15 MBP model. I’ve upgraded the RAM and SSD. Changed out the Airport/Bluetooth module. Installed Ventura. It’s working great. No problems.

I had one of these. 16Gb, i7, 512gb. I had it on Mojave as well. It was decent and served me well but I ended up getting frustrated with the bad battery life and constant loud fan noise so I sold it and bought a MacBook Air. I used to play games on it but I always thought it underperformed for the price it cost when new.

impressive upload Psivewri. I smashed the thumbs up on your video. Keep on up the terrific work.

Love the talking clock on the desk

these videos are awesome 😍🔥

Excellent laptop for 2012-2015.. Today its still can handle mid tasks in photoshop. I still dally drive 2015 Retina 13" i7 16gb and it handles photoshop and Lightroom ok, the fans go crazy but its ok. Love the port selection! Great video! thank you

It is the time when MacBook never be the same. RIP 2.5" drive and removable RAM

Still using my mid 2014 MBP. Got lucky and got a truly mint condition one. Works grerat for everyday tasks, screen has no delamination and my battery is at about 80%. Thanks for another great video!!

I still have my 2015 MBP Retina. It's had a new battery since I bought it but that's all it's really needed. Honestly incredible that it still works perfectly. Only downside is the RAM and SSD is soldered, so it isn't going to last another 7 years. I'm still mad that the Retina Model didn't SAY MACBOOK PRO ON THE BEZEL.

You should probably get a set of screw extracting pliers. I got an Engineer PZ-57 for my MSI laptop because the heatsink screws came stripped and I needed to desperately clean it out. MSI, known for one thing: Overly tight screws. They bite hard into the screw and, provided you have room (you would have here for instance), you turn the pliers as it eats the screw. Of course the screw can't be put back in, but any method of removing a stripped screw is like that. Neat find and repair!

This is my previous MacBook, I bought it in 2013 from Apple website, it was refurbished, not a brand new one, so it did save me a lot of money. I kept using it all the way to the end of last year, and got replaced by the latest M1 Pro. To this day I'm still amazed by it's super thin body, not even the latest M1 Pro can compete.

Really nice video 👍

7:29 looool its true, nice gold seiko clock

Watching this on my old 2012.. One of the best features of this generation is the keyboard, anytime I have any long form writing todo I use this.

I still own a mid 2015 Macbook Pro since brand new. Sadly it's had it's last MacOS update this year, and I'm pretty sure next year I can't update any further. But my Macbook stays with me till it quits

7:33 Nice Seiko talking clock you have there

This is my laptop! I have the maxed out version that costed around $3k at the time, still in great shape 9/10 but I did have to replace the spicy pillow, It currently runs Catalina.

Hi , just started watching your videos , and I gotta say they are very calming and relaxing to watch. By the way , I checked out your Instagram and damn you have a badass FTO .

He was an absolute machine on the drums!

bought one new when they came out- served me well and replaced it with an M1 Max when it came out. Did photo editing super well but it did start showing it's age recently. Funny thing I had the exact same screw strip when trying to repaste it a year ago!

i am getting dankpod vibes from the test edit

wow you took so much care I have a late 2013 retina 15 inch looks identical To change the battery I used a rather large screwdriver and just levered the old battery out. This action destroyed it (the old battery). All the sticky stuff left in there I just put the brand new battery in and let the old sticky hold the new battery. Did not clean a single thing just put the case back on etc and it worked. Thanks to latest update to OCLP it's running Ventura.

I still have a 2011 non-retina MBP. It is exceptional. The screen is not washed-out, at all. It also has replaceable battery without the gunk.

11:35 That looks so nice. Even better than the 2021 models.

i've got this laptop, i used a loophole to get the newest MacOS on it and its actually crazy how good it runs

We had a "water damaged" mid 2012 13" with a Core i7 and 8GB of RAM. We tried booting it up recently and it worked kinda, after some time I found out that if I unplug the keyboard it would work perfectly with an external keyboard. I've put in an SSD, now I just need to replace the keyboard and it's a fully working Mac again.

I have a 2013 13" Pro, I put a new battery in it and it still works decent for web browsing, Word and Excel.

I bought this when it came out and just recently upgraded to the M1 Max. The retina is still holding up strong.

I bought a M1 Macbook Pro a while ago, it makes me wonder if that thing will last 10 years. All that power while the fan doesn't even need to turn on, the switch to ARM is a game changer.

This is just my usual laptop I use every day.. Still works fine

I watched this video, watched the 8-bit guys video, then saw your comment about the seiko clock and had to come back to find it as I didn't notice it the first time. So cool looking, 7:28 for anyone else looking

This MacBook Pro seems to be VERY similar to my 2021 14' MacBook Pro.Pretty interesting how there took inspiration from this one + customer feedback and made a great NEW MacBook Pro.

Great video, mayyyte. Shrimps on the barbie for you!

I had a 3210 13" model when I went to school. It was my first and only mac overall thus far. 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD in 2013 was pretty sweet compared to my desktop at the time and frankly in general, minus the fact that the desktop had a dGPU. Ultimately while now I could easily upgrade a non retina, the retina with a automatic SSD at the time was possibly by greatest spec for spec upgrade. I originally got it for iOS dev before almost all general tools could make apps without actually having an Apple machine and realizing that was not the path my life would take. When I first bought it, it was absolutely banging and one of the best PCs I ever owned period. Unfortunately. software got significantly worse over time and Apple DESTROYED my 4s iPhone, basically killing off desire to full send the ecosystem. That + my need for just a Windows or Unix based machine meant I could not justify keeping it around when I could buy a "shitbox + SSD" for cheaper. I wound up thus far with a 3070 90 Watt laptop. I still miss the macbook here and there. It would not have gotten the proper treatment from me OS wise so I hope it brought someone else joy. But man if it was not a solid laptop between all supported MacOS versions, Win7, Win8, and Win10 (also Win10 on a USB 2.0 drive... Yikes.).

Just got one of these out of e waste that is a fully maxed out model. 2.7ghz i7, 16gb ram, 750gb ssd, and the dual graphics. Only 250 cycles on the battery and it appears to have been replaced in 2021 according to the date code on it. So excited to play around with it some more soon.

This laptop taught me that you can strip Torx screws… if the previous owner left it so dirty that the screws get corroded. 4:57 you can also try to use pliers to grasp and twist the screw out

Wished I can see more of the Birb Productions videos, they have so many potential

Loved it

I still rocking my 2014 15inch upgraded retina macbook pro, still awesome for music production with ableton 11, 16 of ram 750nvidia i7 2.8 and upgraded with 1tb crucial m2 ssd, its a good machine for what i need, sometimes i edit 4k video with davinci resolve and some proxys and still doing great, looking for a new m1 pro but my pocket cant afford it yet, still love my machine a lot.

U still alive, nice

I just stopped using my 2012 retina 15 a couple of months ago, a decade of non stop use, other then a screen replacement under warranty and a fan replacement a couple of years ago have hade no problems with it always kept my hands warm (: still works like the day i bought it

I have the same MacBook Pro. I used Liquid Metal on it. It helped, but not as much as I hoped. It also didn't last. So I replaced it with high-end thermal paste.

bought the 15'' 2015 MacBook Pro and used it hard until I've replaced it recently with the 13'' M1 MBP, it was used very heavily, most of the time under the extremely hot and humid conditions. it was a tank. refused to die. retired it because I want something abit lighter and long battery life.

Your DankPods impression is amazing hehe :)

Me watching this on my recently bought 2011 MacBook Pro still love the unibodys

Finally got an ifixit sponsorship! Nice!

i actually have a late 2012 retina macbook, it runs great and it’s my main laptop, although the battery was in bad health, and 2 keys fell off and the display was dent but some of it was fixable

Recently dusted off my Mid-2015 15” and it’s quite solid under Monterey. I did end up getting the battery replaced for random shutdowns but the actual battery life is incredible with the new OS. With new paste the processor seems to be doing a lot better but I didn’t look too closely into it, it went from ass to slightly less ass at gaming lol.

Still using my 20212 Retina MacBook Pro for music production, 1080p video editing in Premiere Pro, live streaming with Ecamm Live and web surfing ... the battery lasts only 5-10min but everything else is still great.

I'm gonna believe the Seiko Quartz in the b-roll is a nod to The 8-Bit Guy lol, great video as always!

Still using my 2012 15" Retina MacBook Pro and have no issues with it, only the battery also needs a service and doesn’t hold a lot of charge.

As someone whos wanted a macbook since this one and just got one last december with the 14 inch m1 pro im glad i waited all these years cause damn them bezels are huge lol

SLI is the future - will always be 😁

gotta love the peak Aussie

My brother still has a 13-inch 2012 macbook, works perfectly fine and he uses it to this day!

Still have the first retina 15” MBP running Ventura and yeah it still works well

The Birbs Production video looks quite good actually

I loved to do this to my old mac laptops, Intel macs where nice to upgrade but since M1 I will never own an intel mac again. Not only are they faster, quiet and battery lasts me a week with my use using it 3-4 hrs a day.

PLEASE MAKE A FULL CHANNEL OF BIRB PRODUCTIONS HOLY SHIT THAT MADE MY DAY

watching this on my 16GB ram 2013 MacBook Pro retina which I've had since new. It's a great machine which I feel absolutely no need to even think about replacing.

Your video's are super amazing👉

Thinking of getting one of these(the 2014 model with 16Gb Ram) until I can afford the 16 MBP. Will be using it for basic stuff(word processing, browsing, RU-vid, etc.) and some coding which I believe it should handle without problem.

That birb's productions video was absolutely hilarious.