
Keyboard: Press each key and verify it works.Is the battery recalled / explodey? Check the serial number with Apple Battery Recall.Does the battery charge? Plug in the charger.
How many battery cycles? Look for Power > Cycle Count). Discrete Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 M370X? (System Information > Graphics/Displays). CPU: Core i5 or i7? ( > About This Mac). A big part of OpsLevel is improving development processes with checklists, so to that end, we’ve developed the following thorough checklist for how to buy a used 2015 Macbook Pro. However, buying a used machine puts the onus on us to thoroughly test the machine before purchasing. We’ve been fortunate to be able to source 2015 Macbook Pros locally from classifieds sites like Kijiji and Craigslist. Keyboards are a big deal for developers and some of us are antsy when important keys like Escape are replaced with a virtual one. The 2015 MacBook Pro was the last model manufactured by Apple before the switch to Touchbar and and the butterfly keyboard. Unfortunately, it also suffers from a failure prone butterfly keyboard design and the dreaded Touchbar. The newer 2019 MacBook Pro has some great features like Touch ID, 32 GB RAM, and USB-C power delivery that you can plug on either side. It is better illustrated than mine.At OpsLevel, we’re big fans of the 2015 MacBook Pro. Paste the report into the resulting “Additional Text” window:Īlso see this excellent user tip on posting text reports like EtreCheck. NOTE: Changes in late 2018 to the forum software require you use the “Additional Text" icon (see example below) to embed the report into a post:
⚠️ Please DO NOT highlight the text in the report before using Etrecheck’s “Copy report” command-that will garble the formatting and make the report slower and harder to evaluate. When its report displays, click the "Share Report" icon from EtreCheck’s toolbar and then "Copy report” from the resulting dropdown. Run it, select “Report" from the left-hand pane (scroll down to the bottom of that pane to find): It will notreveal any personal or secure information. Etrecheck is the development of a long-serving and trusted contributor here expressly for displaying information in these forums to help us help you. We can also see hard data about drive performance and RAM usage. We can quickly and within the confines of these forums help you determine if software issues are the problem if you use EtreCheck, available free from the Mac App Store here: Fortunately there is a safe, secure way to do that. The symptoms lead me to agree with Mr Hoffman's concern a software conflict.Ī good place to start looking for culprits is with a snapshot of your software configuration. If Premiere will not work with those specs, I'm not sure it will work on any MacBook Pro.