Hey guys,

How's it going? I have an MBP 13" that I bought awhile back. The battery is dead and the speaker is broken too.

I have an MBA 11" now and I use it more often. Should I sell my MBP 13", repair it or keep it?

I think the value of the MBP 13" is not that fantastic either.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

I had the same dilemma when my sister's old MBP 13" early 2011 had a lot of issues. First the battery was completely flat and dead, so it needed to be plugged into the power at all times. Then the MBP ran extremely slow and the trackpad wasn't working at all. Initially i thought that I wanted to trade it in but decided to just get it repaired and see if I could repurpose it.

I brought it Wei at Mac Cores Solution at Kota Damansara and he immediately found out what was wrong with it. When a MBP battery is dead, the laptop will run extremely slow. So I got him to help me swap out the battery, install in a new SSD and removed the optical drive and use the old HDD as a secondary drive. On top of that he cleaned the internals, gave the heatsink some new thermal paste and tightened the monitor hinge.

Now I am extremely pleased with it because the MBP 13" works perfectly and fast now. Enough for my office productivity work and for my side gig writing articles online. Apple has really done a great job being able to make a laptop which is already almost 7 years old still work so smoothly and fast. Btw I am writing this with that laptop now!