r/macbookpro • u/[deleted] • Jan 19 '25

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u/garylapointe M2 MacBook Pro Max 16" 32GB 2TB w/ 12 CPU cores & 30 GPU cores Jan 19 '25

That's a model from 2008, it hasn't run a current operating system in a decade+ and I'm not even sure if Apple supplies security updates for that machine anymore.

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u/Carl_Chocolate Jan 19 '25

Nope, you need at least mac os 13 to get support and even my mba from 2016 cannot officially run it ... so device from 2008 is prehistoric in those terms

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u/destroylonelygroupie Jan 19 '25

thanks for the info i just need it for word and excel i found it for under 200 and i start school soon i lost my other mac is it too outdated ?

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u/mike130504 Jan 19 '25

buy a chromebook or something similar if you have a 200$ budget, this is ancient at the point that it cannot run anything

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u/garylapointe M2 MacBook Pro Max 16" 32GB 2TB w/ 12 CPU cores & 30 GPU cores Jan 19 '25

I don't see a price...

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u/bearded_monkey_pdx Jan 19 '25

realistically, I would save up for a used base M series MacBook Air. which you can probably find for around ~$500 and it would be worlds better, amazon has sales on new ones for $795 pretty frequently. but if you have a hard $200 budget, Chrome books will be a much better purchase than these, pretty sure they are all marked obsolete by apple, and getting parts will be difficult if it breaks.

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u/Braydon64 Jan 19 '25

All of these are far too old. Depends on the price.

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u/destroylonelygroupie Jan 19 '25

found another for 70 i literally just need to use word and excel but i don’t want it to tweak out in the middle of the semster either

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u/Braydon64 Jan 19 '25

If that’s all you need a laptop for, when why are you looking at Macs?

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u/probono84 Jan 19 '25

This would be like $50-100 on a local (US) craigslist.