This is a single-owner MacBook Pro Mid 2010 i7 2.66GHz with a High Resolution (1680x1050) display option. It had been my main workhorse for about 3-4 years until I upgraded to a newer model and kept this one as a spare, using it only occasionally. The battery still has only 344 cycles and easily lasts 1-2 hours.
It is in a very good condition cosmetically: no dents and only a few hair thin scratches on the bottom. The screen offers a lot of real estate and still holds up colour/contrast wise pretty well. At some point I have replaced the HDD with an SSD, and DVD Drive with the HDD, but I took out the HDD since then. It only comes with ScanDisk 120GB SSD and no DVD drive.
Unfortunately with time it has developed two flaws (which are apparently very common):
- The soldering on the top RAM slot has cracked pretty early on, so it can only have half of the maximum RAM, which is 4GB.
- The machine started to have kernel panics when switching from Intel HD Graphics to NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M. The solution was to replace a tantalum capacitor with a better one. I locked the graphics to internal-only with `gfxCardStatus` app as a “temporary” fix and purchased the capacitor, but never bothered to replace it, as it was working pretty well. I will put the capacitor in the box just in case.
I have used it for a few hours to test the battery and performance and it is still a very good machine, but please take these flaws into account when purchasing.
It comes with an original charger in a well-packed box.