I realized today that my MacBook Air is 8 years old. It still seems as fast as when it was new and the battery lasts like 5 hours. I don’t use it much but I was surprised how well it works for its age. Who here has the oldest function Mac?

Yours is older than mine. Mine is a late 2017, purchased in early '18. I plan to buy a,new one when the new processor comes online.

I also have a 2010 27" iMac.

(1) Apple MacBook Pro 15-Inch "Core i7" 2.0 (Early 2011) - Updated with SSD and maxed out RAM
(2) Mac mini 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Late 2009) - Upgraded with SSD and maxed out RAM

I had white 13" MacBook about a year ago that was made around '07, but it bit the bullet.

I believe mine is either an early 2009 MacBook Air, I’d have to go look. Batter is shot and performance is fine as long as I’m just browsing or doing light Excel/Word work.

Old enough that I can’t sync my iPhone with it anymore as it won’t support recent versions of iTunes.

My MacBook Pro is, I believe, a 2007 model. It's consigned to light duty upstairs. Last November I got an Air, new old stock, late 2017 model that works wonderfully for around 700 bucks.

My MacBook Pro is so old I can't remember exactly when I got it....refurbed from Apple. I think it was around 2009. Since I had the hard drive replaced with solid state and the RAM upped.

2017 Mac Book Pro 15" i7 with 16gb ram, spinny hard drive. Has not seen much action in the last year and a half, it was my personal computer when I was on the road covering Miami to Atlanta.

Macbook Pro 13" spring 2012, I can tell mine is getting slower when it comes to certain programs. When I open photos it takes a month to get the pics open, microsoft word is slow as well, stupid things will slow it down like opening the calendar. Gosh, now that I think about it I need a NEW one

Full disclosure, I used this during undergrad and grad school and I was never easy on it. I have been happy with it and I would buy another when it is time.

Mid 2012 13" MacBook pro. Upgraded 3 years ago to SSD and maxed out memory. Runs great. Never had a Wintel platform last this long. Will buy another when the time comes.

Mid 2010 MacBook Pro. Added an SSD, and maxed the memory. Only downside is the the external graphics chip died. It’s a common failure of that model. I use a hack to run off the internal card only.

I’ll probably wait to see what the new ARM models look like. I really miss the old G5’s.

13" MacBook Air about 6 weeks old now. Replaced my 2016 MacBook Pro which fell off the sofa breaking the display.

Late 2008 MacBook Pro with max memory of 8GB RAM and dual SSD drives. Used daily but as mentioned it won’t update anymore and getting to the point more websites won’t work since Safari hasn’t downloaded some certificates.

Gets very hot and battery lasts maybe 15 minutes...

Sometimes it runs better than my work issued High-end Dell mobile workstation. :-)

Also have a working original Macintosh with dual 3.5” drives, dot matrix printer and the software. Pretty amazing longevity:-)

2012 and I dropped it once so now the screen doesn’t always come on and takes some fiddling. I can’t justify buying a new one.

Gen-3 13" MBP w/retina 2012

Upgraded storage from 128 to 500G

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getting to the point more websites won’t work since Safari hasn’t downloaded some certificates.

I'm seeing that too. If I have trouble with a website using Safari, I try with Chrome; that usually works.

MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014, 500GB SSD.

I replaced the battery about 2 years ago (?). Unfortunately the RAM is hard wired in the model so I'm stuck with 8GB. Apple replaced the monitor in 2018 due to the model having delamination issues on the screens, I got in right under the 4 year deadline.

It's still working great but I plan to move to a new one this fall (or sooner) while I can still get some decent money for this one.

I don't use Safari at all anymore on my old Macs

I have a Powebook 180 that still works. IIRC, it is from 1993, but I got it used in 1999. Still chugging along on MacOS 7.5. Does that count?

It gets used for one thing. Generating amortization schedules in TValue for the Mac, a long forgotten program by the publisher.

I was recently gifted a Mid-2015 MacBook Pro with 500GB HD, 2.5GHz Quad-core i7 and 16GB of RAM. It was unused in the box.

That meant I could retire my 2011 MBP and give it to my mother, who was ready to throw her HP laptop out the window.

Just last year I upgraded the 2011 MBP to a 1TB SSD hard drive and replaced the battery. My mom uses it every day and every day she's thankful that she's not using a Windows based laptop. She's had virtually no issues or headaches with it since I gave it to her in December.

My wife as a mid 2013 MacBook Air and we recently replaced the 128GB hard drive with a 1TB hard drive.

We're happy Mac users.

Tony.

2016 MacBook Pro with 500 GB SSD. Runs like a dream.