How is a Mid 2012 Retina Macbook Pro i7 Quad 16gb 750gb SSD

Are the mid 2012 macbooks pretty sturdy? Is there anything I need to look out for in a used one? I use osx sparingly as a vm so my hardware knowledge of one is lacking. How do I check any bios/efi locks or any other hardware locks. And what would you say this is worth.

Thanks

 

16gb of ram is great, the SSD HDD are upgrade-able but having more is always nice, I think 512 is personally enough. Check the Hinges, I believe the first editions were susceptible to breaking. Having a dedicated GPU is always nice too!!

 

Though not as widespread as with the 2011 models, the 2012 Retina MacBook Pro can suffer from poor GPU soldering on the logic board, which leads to video corruption when using the discrete GPU. The extended repair program for models affected by this expires at the end of this month, so if you suffer a breakdown afterward, your best bet would be to pay to have the GPU re-balled (preferably with leaded solder) at a cost of roughly $150-$200. Other than that, there are the usual suspects - check the hinges as mentioned above, make sure the battery doesn't have an excessive number of cycles on it (less than 500 is best), and so forth. The SSD on the one you're interested in was the highest-capacity you could get at the time. The only real "upgrade" would be to a 960 GB model, but they're pricey at around $500 - completely not worth it, IMO.

I'd say it's worth $1,000-$1,100, depending on if it has the upgraded 2.7 GHz i7 CPU and is in pristine condition.

 

Thanks for the opinions, it's amazing (and ridiculous) the 2nd hand market price for an old mackbook.

 

Tell me about it. I got $700 for my 2011, the one which kicked off the whole extended GPU repair program in the first place.