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A 2017 MPB is still my daily driver. The only thing having me switch to a M3 at the moment is I'm finally done with that horrible keyboard. Battery life is getting a bit annoying, but otherwise it's chugged away ever since I got the thing on release day.

That said, the M series laptops are such a huge step forward it's a little mind blowing!

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Mine is a 2012 MBP. I am only just now seeing real performance issues; until about mid last year it worked as well as the day I bought it aside from some battery degradation (I put an SSD in it around 2018). Pretty excited to upgrade and hope I can get at least 5-6 years out of a new MBP. This was my first MacBook, and 12 years of use is pretty insane value.

Mine's a 2014 MBP, and even the battery is still mostly okay. My biggest annoyance at this point is because it no longer gets updates, it's not on par with my new iPhone and I've lost functionality like copy/paste between computer and phone.

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