#Macbook pro 2012 non retina drivers#

#Macbook pro 2012 non retina drivers#

While still supported in Mojave, these are the last 2 nVidia cards Apple supports, and nVidia and Apple are not releasing any new drivers for Mojave. Apple dropped nVidia discrete graphics after the 750GTm, which was in the first Retina MBP released in 2012. The biggest concern I would have is the current state of nVidia Graphics support in future macOS releases. Make sure you put in an SSD and max the RAM out. It drives my 3840x1600 display when I'm not gaming on my PC. I still use it to this day, primarily for video editing. This model is the same model as my personal laptop. I know the older spec is 1067 (for the 2010 that I use) I am not sure of the 2011, if it is 1333 it may be a problem. The 2012 uses 1600mhz ddr3, make sure that your rams are specced as such.

This is of course relevant for the 15 inch with dedicated (ati in the older, and nvidia in the newer series). While the 2012-2013 retina units with the same gpu also suffers failures, the mid 2012 non retina does not.

PS the non mid 2012 a1286s are notorious for gpu failures the mid 2012 unit is not prone to the same issues. While the rational being in me loves the thinkpads, the macs are just plain beautiful. Later got a t430, that is retired and moved on to family where it is used for e-mail and internet browsing. in 2011 I had a t410 with first gen core i processor, about same vintage as the 2010 mbp, that machine is dead. I am a big fan of thinkpads and currently own a T470, with previous ownerships going all the way back to pentium 3 era (t-30). I like apple products, to a degree, they are usually well designed (from a users perspective, not for repair), made of better than average components (I still have a mid 2010 13 that I can use) and last a long long time with about average care. Even then almost none of the dual cores are able to outperform. The cons, heavy, aged design and hardware, battery only lasts about 3-4 hrs, did I mention heavy? Pros: cheap, considering that its got what would be top spec in terms of ram and storage even by todays standards, anything that apple sells new that is able to outperform this machine (execption of the retina air) costs over two grand. its the quad core i7 2.6 with 16gb ram and 1tb ssd. I am writing this post on a mid 2012 15in that I bought used in february this year for 375 us.