It was the last of its kind - one where Apple officially supported DIY upgrades - but really only for the memory and drive. I think I got it for $900 on sale in 2015 when it was still being sold. Technically it's called the mid-2012 13" "Unibody" model. It's been a good run, and it was doing really well after I installed an SSD and especially after I maxed it out with 16 GB RAM.
I've had weird things happen to it over the years. I've had it lock up and I forced it to restart, and one time the drive came up corrupted and wouldn't boot, but I had a backup and restored from that. I've swapped in a couple of different SSDs - 512 GB first, but then upped it to 1 TB when I found a WD Blue 3D on sale. A few times it just locked up and wouldn't restart, but I could tell that it was partially powered up (a light electronic buzz) but couldn't get it to restart without pulling the battery connector.
But today it just went splat for no apparent reason, although it restarted almost immediately. Then it went splat again and wouldn't turn on. Don't know if it's the battery, the power system, the logic board, or something else.
I'm holding out hope that it still works. It wouldn't power up with just the power adapter connected (a lot of older Mac notebook computers will do that even without a battery), although it the light on the connector will glow green like it's a full battery. However, the battery indicator lights (supposed to flash lights for the approximate charge level) on the side don't light up when I press a button. The battery was always weird. When I got it it was already at maybe 94% of rated new capacity. I definitely bought it new and there was maybe 1-2 cycles on the battery. It finally reported that it should be serviced and I've been living with it until I could get the battery replaced - and I was thinking that Apple can still do it even if they don't list it as serviceable (kind of a long story regarding California repair laws). If not, I might be willing to plunk down $30 on one of those cheap batteries from Amazon just to see if it works. If it doesn't, I might just see what I can find used, because there are a lot of these out on the market, and would just drop my current SSD in since the most important thing I did with it was make backups of my devices.
I have an appointment to bring it into an Apple Store, but I'm not sure if they can even fix one since it's older. But I'm hoping maybe they have access to diagnostic equipment. I'm really hoping that it's just the battery and that they can replace it with an OEM one. This is in really good cosmetic shape, with only wear on the keys. I've seen a few older ones, and they typically have visible scratches or dents.
I've had weird things happen to it over the years. I've had it lock up and I forced it to restart, and one time the drive came up corrupted and wouldn't boot, but I had a backup and restored from that. I've swapped in a couple of different SSDs - 512 GB first, but then upped it to 1 TB when I found a WD Blue 3D on sale. A few times it just locked up and wouldn't restart, but I could tell that it was partially powered up (a light electronic buzz) but couldn't get it to restart without pulling the battery connector.
But today it just went splat for no apparent reason, although it restarted almost immediately. Then it went splat again and wouldn't turn on. Don't know if it's the battery, the power system, the logic board, or something else.
I'm holding out hope that it still works. It wouldn't power up with just the power adapter connected (a lot of older Mac notebook computers will do that even without a battery), although it the light on the connector will glow green like it's a full battery. However, the battery indicator lights (supposed to flash lights for the approximate charge level) on the side don't light up when I press a button. The battery was always weird. When I got it it was already at maybe 94% of rated new capacity. I definitely bought it new and there was maybe 1-2 cycles on the battery. It finally reported that it should be serviced and I've been living with it until I could get the battery replaced - and I was thinking that Apple can still do it even if they don't list it as serviceable (kind of a long story regarding California repair laws). If not, I might be willing to plunk down $30 on one of those cheap batteries from Amazon just to see if it works. If it doesn't, I might just see what I can find used, because there are a lot of these out on the market, and would just drop my current SSD in since the most important thing I did with it was make backups of my devices.
I have an appointment to bring it into an Apple Store, but I'm not sure if they can even fix one since it's older. But I'm hoping maybe they have access to diagnostic equipment. I'm really hoping that it's just the battery and that they can replace it with an OEM one. This is in really good cosmetic shape, with only wear on the keys. I've seen a few older ones, and they typically have visible scratches or dents.