Back cover looks like it was pried off with a crowbar, feet are missing, but I don't care about that (installed 4 felt pads you can get for furniture or something).Īll in all, a really good machine for such a low overall price.ĮDIT: Initially, I was thinking the battery could easily hold the charge for 4 hours, but after testing it, it's more like 2-2.5 hours, so changing the battery might be a future improvement. $100 in total, for a pretty darn good MacBook (also, this is my first Mac machine, I'm not a huge fan of the MacOS system, but for that low of a price, this was a steal, might manage to sell it for profit a bit later on if I get bored lol).īattery is okay, 367 cycles, holds for about 2-2.5 hours of browsing and youtube I'd say, never got to test it to the max.

I had to pay for their scrips since I couldn't get it to work with their manual process), removed the power resistor from the board (and got the sleep mod jumper installed as well, since I was planning to use High Sierra). However, it has the aforementioned USB 3.0 ports and a new thinner and wider MagSafe 2. I managed to score a 15' early 2011 MBP with 4GB of RAM and 500GB HDD with defective Radeon graphics for $65 just yesterday.īought a $20 120GB SSD, added a 4GB stick I had laying around (only up to 6 GB now, since it came with 2x2GB sticks, but I might get it up to 8GB, maybe even 16GB if needed).ĭisabled the Radeon graphics in the UEFI (using the RealMacMods. This model has a very similar external enclosure as the mid 2011 model.

Late 2011 macbook pro value new