2012 was 12 years ago when they were make like bricks and had all the ports and parts were replaceable. Let's see how current MacBooks will hold up in 12 years. I bet they won't be so lucky.

Yeah I had a mid-2012 macbook pro and it lasted me almost 10 years, as a full time software dev that is. Replaced a fan, a cable and the HD to SSD, and the battery was over, but other than that kept going strong until I was sort of forced to upgrade because a newer iOS OS required a newer XCode required a newer MacOS required a newer laptop.

I have to say it was fun anticipating my new laptop watching the benchmarks and observing like a 10x (multi core) improvement.