10 year old MacBook Pro has a fault.

Ps want to give it to my daughter.

I suspect it is probably too old to upgrade and probably, at ten years old, not worth repairing, sorry to say, but you could ask at the Apple store, or if you have a local techie shop, they will be able to tell you if it is worth spending money on. Try ringing them first, if you can get a number. Have the exact type or serial number ready.
My grandson, who is very tech minded, has been trying to restore his late Grandad’s Macbook Pro for months, without success.

Thank you Cabbie. That is useful.

Ring Apple. They will advise for free - when my mac "died" before Christmas they advised that at over 10 years old they could not attempt to repair it but offered to give me a list of approved repairers. I bit the bullet and said goodbye to it.

That age of Mac would is considered obsolete and were it working, would no longer receive security updates.

Apple discontinues all hardware service for obsolete products, and service providers cannot order parts for obsolete products. Mac laptops may be eligible for an extended battery-only repair period for up to 10 years from when the product was last distributed for sale, subject to parts availability.

support.apple.com/en-gb/102772

www.macrumors.com/2024/10/03/obsolete-macs-september-2024-list/

Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

Well thank you all. I will also have to say goodbye to my solid state drive 15 inch MacBook Pro which only took seconds to boot up with its large capacity etc sitting in its beautiful case. If I go to another repairer it will cost money which may or may not work. So goodbye my beautiful friend 😞💐🥲

Mine is about the same age and no longer takes updates. DS has rescued it a couple of times, but I think it’s on its way out. Like you I’ll have to replace it sooner or later.

It’s sad I think lovetopaint that tech doesn’t last longer. A local repairer whizz rescued our Mac, it’s nine years old and had begun to crawl along. All has been well for six months, if it lasts another year or maybe two I’ll be happy.

My head struggles with what seems to me to be a very short life. My iPad is the same age, it no longer receives updates but does everything I need it to do so no plans to change it yet. I make sure it backs up to the Cloud just in case. I guess when I do change it I’ll not need to do it again as I’ll probably wear out before it does. .

Unfortunately mine went black with a line across it and now it starts to come on with a notice saying it has a fault. So no chance to use it to try anything.