mercredi 22 août 2018

MacBook Pro 9,2 - a brief tribute to the king of computing

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I'm very biased because this is my daily go-to device, but just a quick few thoughts on the king of computing - MacBook Pro 9,2.

First lets use the internet archive to revisit the original product page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120618...3-and-15-inch/

Summary of base model:
$1229, i5 2.5GHz, 4GB DDR3, 500GB 5400RPM, 8x SuperDrive, Ports: Gigabit Ethernet; FireWire 800; Thunderbolt 1; USB3 x2; SDXC, 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0, 7 hours wireless web, 4.5 lbs

One of the reasons why I LOVE this computer is the fun of easily taking it apart to upgrade it. Need to install a new battery, no problem. Upgrade the RAM, easy. New SSD hard drive, go for it. Dual hard drives, YES!

Apple is still showing love to this little wonder as well, just look at the OS upgrades officially supported:
- 10.7 Lion
- 10.8 Mountain Lion
- 10.9 Mavericks
- 10.10 Yosemite
- 10.11 El Capitan
- 10.12 Sierra
- 10.13 High Sierra
- 10.14 Mojave

In theory this computer can support:
- 16 GB RAM
- 2TB SSD
- 4TB SATA Drive (in place of the optical drive)

WHAT A BEAST!

In a world of fixed point-of-sale RAM, heat-gun melt the glue not the screen, and limited storage upgradeability... the 9,2 seems to be one of the last Apple computers that welcomed the end-user to use, explore, upgrade, and expand.


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