Yeah I didn’t do the 13, when I first did the guide, it was a lot of fucking shit to do. So I was afraid and only done a few of them. Next time I will do it, and there’s a high chance I’ll start covering PowerBooks. We will see. 🙂
Price guide is like normal, lowest to highest. Model – Link to ebay search Low – 25-35 out of 100 Mid – 50-60 out of 100 High – 75-85 out of 100 EX+ – 90-100 out of 100
In other guides I start from oldest to newest, but today I’m gonna switch it up. Apple Silicon is special and it is tanking down the prices for older MBPs. Also we are in an interesting time becuase NVMe & laptop RAM is jumping the fuck up in price thanks to big corporations wanting to make datacenters and component manufacturers are gonna leave the consumer sector entirely to focus on them. I assume we are going to have a price hike again, I mean its is so bad that default RAM on phones are going to go down on newer models, or at least will be a lot more expensive. Apple is in an interesting place because they have their processor, graphics card, memory, & storage all in one little neat package. So who knows how itll affect with the release of the later machnes. As a matter of fact, you cant even get the proprietary blade SSDs anymore for the older Intel Macs, at least not new.
Only CPU gen newer from year before, same GPU options… Radeon Pro 555X, 560X, Vega 16 or 20 These are the oldest systems to run macOS 26 Tahoe w/ Apple Intelligence
Industrial seller linked, they get a few laptops. used AI in a pic to advertise they sell a lot. ummm we can tell by the seller rating, but ok… market to the n00bs of ebay buying IG
IDK why a lot of these werent in the “any” search.
2015 2.8GHz
Any modifiers greatly reduce how many listings i have to 87, even this has 230 results, but only 180 are CTRL F ” 2.8″. Im not gonna underflate the prices.
I havent done these searches in a long time and my search filters are all fucked up…. specifically worldwide isn’t selected so it messes up the values sorting.
2012 rMBP 768GB+
Including TB SSDs now.
Older 15, 17 & 13 Inch Machines
This is legacy systems, I am just gonna bundle all the systems onto one thing. That way its just easier to compare prices due to system size during the same release.
The 2012 MBP 13 i5 has the longest MBP production timeline, it was discontinued in Oct 2016 Apple sold it as the budget MacBook & last w/ a DVD drive along the rMBP It is like the iPod Touch being a budget iPhone
Rough shape only sold, same with the avail ones. GPU artefacting (at least the seller tested for it), one bad ram slot (these are just picky with ram), and comes w/ bay HDD along w/ DVD drive on the side 😛
“Early” 2011 MBP 17
Updated search for these and next ones, yada yada
Early 2011 MBP 17 2.2 i7-2720QM
Low price seller linked, they do repairs locally. EX+ is a wild sale IMO, 1TB SSD
“Some of these may include the late 2.8 i7 machine, but went from 17 hits to 22 🙂
Found a terrible listing. 13 inch models listed as a quadcore… and they are saying SSDs are lighting fast, that there’s “”no waiting””.
Seriously what the fuck. What I find odd is that it came with an 8X SuperDrive, that it is rare, yet it is standard equipment on the fucking i7 Early 2011 MBP 13… i fucking had to look this up, it was standard equipment back since 2006.
Had to -A1342 and theres probably a MacBook air in here, oh well.
Mid 2010 MBP 13 2.66 P8800
IDK how EX+ is so damn expensive but I linked the seller, especially when they have an iPad 2nd Gen folio case/stand yet they put “VINTAGE” in the listing title.
Low price is the absolute bare minimum, EX+ are the two top listings, 2nd one having the box one having the optional WUXGA display, that first started here.
Linked seller has some apple stuff but a lot of other laptops.
Oh yeah. This specific macbook (probably a lot more of them bc this ISNT the only one im dealing with) can kindly fuck right off.
There is only two MacBook models produced with a 2.33GHz CPU. This one and a 17 Inch of the same year.
Yet I cannot for the life of me get all them in one search query, which is why i have a 2nd seach in the spreadsheet. There’s probably a dozen more out there but eBay is specific about these machines.
To the point to which If Im looking for a (MacBook 15) it will not show (Macbook 15.4). Which means there’s probably a shit ton of MBP 15’s not gonna show up because they are MBP 15.4″…
And yes I just noticed the two different fucking searches are just USA and UK listings. wtf.
Late 06 T7600
Hard to find these, logic boards start at $45.
Linked is a small niche seller from the UK and has a few old macs & has good ratings & shipping practices.
