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And without the budget prices on the MacBook Pro in our country aggravated by the economic crisis. The result - to afford the new Apple-laptop of the Pro-series can only people with sufficiency. But what to do "poor students", which are cut by a laptop with a "apple" on board? The answer is obvious - to acquire a used model without any concerns, because MacBook Pro is supplied with a steep filling with a big back for the future.
In this review, let's talk about the MacBook Pro 2012 and we will try to understand whether this model is enough today, which suppleged it apple as much as 5 years ago.
The MacBook Pro model range is not as simple as, for example, the assortment of the iPhone is a rule: one year / one device does not work here. Often, Apple has time to release a couple of "past" a year, and sometimes it is even possible to submit three. To distinguish models - they get the names Early, Mid and Late.
But S. Apple Mac.book Pro 2012 confused in the early and late "releases" will not have to, the presentation of the past was only alone, and this event fell in mid-2012. That is, there will be no division on MID 2012 and LATE 2012 in the review, but (!) There will be a division "diagonal". MacBook Pro 2012 entered models with 13 and 15-inch screen. And, it would seem, the difference is simple and understandable where they are confused. So it is so, that's just a 15-inch version of the proshi received a more powerful stuffing than the smaller fellow. Well, let's deal with this "Fint" Apple.
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But let's start our description from simple - with design. It does not have to deal with anything. The appearance of Apple-laptops seriously did not change never in history - the all-metal case remained all-metal and shone with a noble gray-silver color. The delight was added minimalistic design and luminous "apple" on the lid. MacBook Pro model 2012 did not exception. All the above voiced trumps in place.
If we talk about changes in appearanceIt is worth mentioning that the 2012 models have become easier and thinner of the countries of 2011, in addition, the display frame has decreased. But in the realities of 2017, it is difficult to evaluate this positive change, because for five years the framework, of course, became even less, and the case is even easier and thinner.
Suspension connectors
However, a non-seasoned species is not always a flaw. For example, the connectors from which Apple gets rid of special cynicism - what to do, "apple" gigant sees aesthetics in a small number of ports (as if the garden from adapters is beautiful).
In the last modern MacBook Pro model "survived" only USB in the number of four pieces and audio connector. Is it worth saying that Apple fans were upset. Well, take a look at the MacBook Pro 2012 and smile - for here not only there is a connector for almost every taste, but even the drive for disks is still preserved!
And one more business card
The design is not the only immortal advantage of the MacBook Pro - to the advantages of Apple-laptops, which do not lose relevance throughout the release history, you can also include input devices - keyboard and trackpad.
Trekpad, first of all, noteworthy in that he is huge and work on it is very convenient, even in graphic applications Forget about the mouse. Well, of course, he is responsive - responds straight or instantly.
The keyboard also deserves the highest rating. First, at the expense of the keys of convenient size and with a comfortable distance between them. Note, these advantages and a compact 13-inch model. And one more advantage - the keyboard has a backlight.
NOT RETINA
Constancy, however, is not always enviable. Then, in 2012, Apple-laptop fans waited and believed that the "apple" giant will present the first MacBook with the Retina display, but the unpleasant surprise expected everyone here.
No, of course, the MacBook Pro 2012 screen, as well as the screen of any other device with the "apple" on board - is good and without Retina-clarity, but, as they say, there is still a precipitate. Still a premium laptop, what would not be cleaned on the Retina display?! But what has been to remember, let's focus better on the advantages.
Despite the "archaic" clarity - 1280 per 800-point 13-inch model and 1400 per 900 at a model of 15 inches, the screen cannot but rejoice - beautiful color reproduction, large viewing angles, good brightness and contrast. In general, the user is not a demanding will be completely will and without this will be praised "Retina".
Is still smart?
However, if we bought a five-year-old laptop, a screen, one way or another, would not be a major interest. Well, agree, because the main point is here - productivity, or rather the question is how quickly and without lags will be able to cope with modern tasks without lags?
Yes, easily! If it is a MacBook Pro. At least, if you believe the reviews of the owners of the used old past. Here, for example, one great video review.
No, of course, no one says that MacBook is about 2012 today, even the most difficult modern utilities will be pulled. However, we assure, with standard office tasks, browsering and simple entertainment, such as watching movies and listening to music, the device will cope with a bang.
Look at the characteristics. The 13-inch model is equipped with a 2-nuclear intel processor Core i5 (clock - 2.5 GHz) or I7 (clock 2.9 GHz) depending on the configuration, in the heart of 15-inch - 4-nuclear Intel Core I7 (clock 2.3 GHz) or 4-core Intel Core I7 (clock 2.6 GHz).
Operative macbook Memory Pro and 13, and 15 inches 2012 - 4 or 8 GB depending on the configuration. ROM - 500 or 750 GB.
As you can see, the filling as a whole is very good, add to it the optimized Mac OS, and it will become clear why users of used people call them shock and very pleasant in "communication".
By fragile ice
One of the most subtle moments of the purchase of used devices is, of course, the state of the battery. And then say that it is initially laid, it is hardly worth it. However, justice for the sake of the sake of MacBook Pro 2012 - 7 hours. Today, the prospectors can stretch out without recharging longer, but if compared with competitors - 7 hours is excellent.
But still know that the battery has a property to wear out and is unknown, in what condition he will get to you. Unfortunately, check this when buying will not come out - if, of course, the former owner will not offer a test drive.
On the other hand, one way or another, the battery is quite simple replaceable. Although "simply" in the case of a all-metal case, the concept of relatively. Yes, and in general, Apple technology is not friendly in repair. But here "age" MacBook Pro 2012 is an advantage, because the older "apple", the better it is the parameters of maintainability.
Buy or not buy - this is the question
Of course, used devices - it is always a lot of questions. But we will not talk about cases of sad when the buyer is explicitly spoiled by the extremely aggressive gadget.
Our goal is to give you to understand how much the characteristics of the MacBook Pro 5-year-old correspond to current tasks and which classical Apple "Buns" This laptop can provide.
Well, the main trumps in place - stylish design And excellent input devices - keyboard and trackpad. And if we talk about performance - then it is necessary to consider the context. Looking for a laptop for classic office tasks, browsering and entertainment? Then laid down in 2012 in the hero of our view of the potential, you will be enough with your head. But if you are constantly required to work in "heavy" applications, and at the same time you want a laptop "flew", then, of course, should look at something more modern.
We note a number of moments.
The obvious disadvantage of MacBook Pro 2012 is the lack of Retina-display. Obvious advantage - a large number of Connectors in comparison with modern prospects, as well as in comparison with them, the best maintainability, which even makes the MacBook Pro upgrade. Well, the obvious controversial moment is autonomy, if you want maximum mobility, which is declared in official parameters, most likely, the battery will have to be replaced.
In general, as you can see, the picture is positive, and, we emphasize once again, if you put classic daily tasks before the laptop, we would recommend MacBook Pro 2012 to take. We hope you will find it to find this model at a pleasant price and in a presentable appearance.
In the basic configuration Mcabook Pro Apple sets hard drives for 5400 revolutions. And their performance with modern Mac OS X operating systems (10.6-10.8) leaves much to be desired. And not Apple will gradually, but confidently, goes to the installation in all SSD laptops drives.
We believe that it's time to speed up and your favorite MacBook. You just need to install a SSD drive into it. And so that you are not confused by a limited amount of SSD - you can install the second hDD In place DVD drive.
What models of laptops is this solution? - Yes, almost to all MacBook and MacBook Pro except MacBook Pro Retina
| SSD 120GB. | SSD 240GB. | SSD 500GB. | SSD 1TB. | SSD 2TB. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 000 rub | 12 000 rubles | 20 000 rub | 55 000 rub | 94 600 rubles |
In laptops, a combination of reading / write speeds / on a hard disk at a rotation speed of a 5400 revolution of the disc / min. Does not even reach 50 MB / s. Disc on 7200 revolutions / minute Vibrate your MacBook almost doubled: read speed / record can vary within 80 ... 105 MB / s.
It is worth noting that in the market there are also hybrid hard drives of the company Seagate, in the design of which a hard disk for 7200 rpm with a 16MB cache of data and 8GB SSD drive. With such a "combined" disk, read / write speed may increase by another 5-7% compared with an ordinary disc for 7200 rpm.
SSD drives for the read / write parameter differ from the manufacturer to the manufacturer and from the model to the model. In addition, prices for SSD drives still have not reached a level comparable to conventional hard drives. The price gradually falls, and even top SSDs with a volume of 500 and 960GB approach $ 1 for 1GB of the drive.
Since the Mac OS X is a very compact operating system, and in a set with most necessary programs, the total volume on the disk usually does not exceed 30-50GB, you can safely look closely to the SSD volume from 120GB and more.
Although, in our opinion, it is already worth considering the SSD volume from 180GB and more.
It is by the fact that the volume of SSD in combination with its price limit most users in the direction of selecting SSD - we suggest you consider the version of the high SSD speed and good HDD capacitance installed on the DVD-drive site.
For Agreed Apple MacBook Pro 2011-2012, we will need 3 screwdrivers: Torx 6, Torx 8 and Philips screwdriver 2 or 000.
Remember! Before disassembling any device, residual static electricity should be removed.
On the bottom cover, we unscrew 10 screws, 3 of which have a big length.
So looks like MacBook Pro 13 "from the inside
Before you change something in the laptop configuration, you must definite the battery from the motherboard. We do not want to start repair with the replacement of the motherboard after a short circuit?
To the place of the regular "slow" hard disk Install the SSD drive, and can old disc Put in OPTIBAY to the place of the DVD drive. In our case, in Optibie, we set a new 750GB 70GB disk for 7,200 revolutions, in order to increase speed when accessing the user data that we plan to store exactly on HDD.
We unscrew the two screws on the bar that holds the hard drive.
4 screws (Torx 8) around the perimeter of the "old" hard disk are transferred to an SSD drive.
Install SSD to the system disk place and fix it with a folder on two screws.
We establish a hard disk in the optibuse and be sure to screw it from the opposite side with two screws.
Remove optical drive.
We need to disconnect 5 loops.
We do it very carefully.
Disconnect
- pin hard disk
- pin optical drive
- pin WiFi.
- camera cable
- cable speakers
We unscrew the speaker and disconnect the antennas from the Wi-Fi module and postpone the speaker to the side.
DVD superdravel. We unscrew the three screws and pull it out.
We rearrange the data loop and the mounting corner from the DVD drive to OPTIBAY in compliance with the direction of installation of the corner.
Install an OPTIBAY with a hard disk to a DVD drive.
We establish the back of the plastic bar of the speaker and connect the antenna to the Wi-Fi module.
Connect in reverse sequence loops and cables to system board. And connect the battery.
We close and screw the bottom cover.
We establish a system from an external boot drive or through the Mac OS x recovery system via the Internet (using the computer with a combination CMD + R).
Now, at the disposal of the owner, a very fast Apple MacBook Pro 2011 release: the system itself and all programs are run several times faster than with standard HDD. The system responds instantly. With a significant amount open applications There are no fading and hanging "spinless colored lollipop." Programs using worker caching work with big files without any delays. And when processing very large arrays of information, the time of work has decreased (according to the laptop owner) by 2-3 times.
It should be noted once again that the gesectic disk is limited to the physical possibility of reading / write on spinning metal plates. Therefore, His " bandwidth"Does not exceed 115 megabytes / sec. (best case scenario). There are no mechanical elements in SSD, so the read / write speed on SSD can reach 550 megabytes / sec. There is an option to theoretically increase this value up to 1.2 gigabytes / sec., But for this you need to use an external hardware RAID-array that is not system diskconnected at best by the ThunderBolt 10 gigabit / s bus (or 1.25 gigabytes / sec.) and exchanged data with another the same RAID array along the same Thunderbolt bus.
If you are the owner of Apple Mac Pro. - You can set four or more SSD drives, make a large RAID array (but note that it will not be hardware, but software, if you do not use a special RAID controller). And even in this case, you can achieve theoretical data transmission rates up to 750 megabytes / s (which corresponds to the data exchange rate of the SATA-bus 6 gigabit / s).
In the next article we will tell you how to make it yourself Fusion Drive. On Apple's laptop with two and more installed hard drives. And by our practical look, Fusion Drive differs from the operation of the usual SSD + HDD combination.
The article is prepared by results repair work Service Center MacFix.
SSD installation cost on MacBook in our service center
| SSD 120GB. | SSD 240GB. | SSD 500GB. | SSD 1TB. | SSD 2TB. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 000 rub | 12 000 rubles | 20 000 rub | 55 000 rub | 94 600 rubles |
Replaced the thermalcaste (I really do not remember what exactly) and the cooling system is cleaned.
Despite all the stipility of that SSD - I left it basic, since at first I simply did not notice the difference in the computer's behavior. Later, however, friezes began to appear and familiar to all users of the OS X "Rainbow Wheel of Death", but who was worth blaming: SSD, operating systemWhich with each update has loaded the laptop more and permanently or can, be low quality thermalist? In this material I am talking about holding the main work laptop acquired in 2013 and share the experience of its operation.
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What is MacBook Pro Mid 2012 (MD101) today?
There was no significant increase in the speed of work, with the exception of a significantly increased speed of copying files inside the disk. On the other hand, I finally got 250 GB of memory, and taking into account the careful relationship to the 120th - this stock will be enough for me for a long time. About reliability is not particularly worried, because To date, production technology solid-state drives brought to a sufficiently high level, and in the extreme case every week the laptop itself makes backups in Time Machine. For those who suffer, I will note that the system from the off state to the desktop (taking into account the password input) is loaded in 20 seconds.
As a result, we are high-quality and fast SSD on very favorable price. Over time, it is probably local prices stabilize and buying from China will cease to be so favorable, but as long as this is an excellent offer for the PC upgrade, which I did not fail.
Time inspection!
Again, the choice of thermoplastics was predetermined long before it was produced. The article by decisive in this issue was the article by. The victim in the contest GD900 was ordered on Aliexpress in just 3 dollars to ensure itself the necessary consumility for several years ahead. Especially in order to get acquainted with Windows 10 and modern games in the near future, I plan to assemble an inexpensive home PC.Concerning temperature regime in the last six months. In case of everyday work with a browser and a basic set of applications, the temperature on the CPU is kept in the area of \u200b\u200b65-67 degrees Celsius, which is quite a lot for a laptop. When exporting a photo or video processor, the processor is heated to 80-85 degrees, and the video window "Kochigar" up to 110. At the same time, the temperature of the laptop rarely exceeds 45 degrees, but the coolers in this case are 6000 revolutions.
In the process of testing, the temperature was fixed using the program, and maximum load Systems were achieved through LINPACK BENCHMARK.
After turning on the computer and launch the queue of programs from autoloading, the CPU temperature stabilized at 52ºC, graphic processor Already approached 70. At the same time, the laptop is not heard from the word at all (2000 rpm), the temperature is outside (on the bottom) in the area of \u200b\u200b30-35 degrees. Running required set According to (2-4 CHROME windows with 20+ tabs, messengers) adds 15-20ºC indicators, the cooler turns do not rise, and the laptop is heated to the usual (me) 40 degrees. In this mode, I usually spend 95% of the time at the computer.
Run CPUBURN. Less than a minute, the graphic core reaches a mark at 100ºC (1), and with slowly begins to show itself (3.5K turns). After another minute, the regular cooler reaches the maximum 6000 rpm (2) and is burning significantly. The laptop housing after 10 minutes "burning" (3) has not heard above 45 degrees. The maximum fixed graphics temperature is 105 degrees, processor - 77ºC. Such temperatures are held in seconds until the cooler accelerates to maximum speed. All tests were performed with a fullhd monitor connected, the temperature of the graphics core in similar tests without a monitor differs by 3-5 degrees in a smaller side.
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It's time to change the thermal paste. There is a good guide on the disassembly in IFIXIT, and I will only remind you that first of all you need to take care of de-energization motherboard By turning off the battery and can continue to continue the preparation.
Judging by the number of dust with maintenance, I delayed a little.
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Somehow the remains of the previous thermal paste look like:
In the process of cleaning, I was so carried away that I forgot about the need to take photos, so the application remained behind the scenes. The thermal paste was put on the drop, the benefit of the climber from the radiator is excellent.
Now O. temperature mode after replacing thermal paste. The result, in principle, on the face. In idle after turning on the PC, the temperature on the graph. The kernel fell by 4-5 degrees, although the CPU drop is hardly noticeable. After launching the required package, everything becomes in its place - both indicators on average "fell" by 10%.
When "burning" through the CPUBURN, the situation also changed somewhat. The path to 100 degrees (1) on graphic nucleus She taught more time (about 5 minutes), and after reaching this temperature, the cooler was unwound to just 2.5 thousand revolutions, and the laptop remained silent. Another 10 minutes of the test, the temperature indicator did not rise above 100 degrees, but it gradually reached 4000 rpm (from the maximum six) and the temperature slightly lowered (2). Manual installation of maximum cooler speed (3) lowers the GPU temperature to 83 degrees. Before replacing the thermal paste, this indicator was at the level of 100ºC.
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