Furthermore it is a very fast machine, perfectly capable to running every piece of modern software that is interesting, including top end audio production software. Sorry no, my MBP was tricked out and I've spent more than $3k on it after SSD, max memory, non-glare screen, etc. The lesson to be learned here is never buy an apple product that costs more then $1000, because its all disposable stuff. I'm happy we can get a few more years out of these 2010 MBP's, but you can rest assured in that in year or two they will be labeled as officially dropped, and you will have to jump through hackish hoops to even upgrade the OS software. Apple doesn't care about backwards compatibility, period. My next notebook will NOT be an apple product, but I still have a Mac Pro in my music studio and there is no way around that for me.so there we are. I particularly like OSX so I have bought some macs, even knowing Apple is lame this way. A year or two later and they couldn't use any of the latest software, which all required the new OS, which their computer couldn't use. They used it for a couple years and then Apple upgraded the OS in such a way that their mac could not use the new OS. I remember once about 20-25 years ago my sister had purchased one of the early macs.

Apple hasn't cared about backwards compatibility in general, for decades. Those are your three available fixes (that don't involve changing to a newer computer): Switch VP9 60fps to H264 30fps, and avoid super high-res videos, and try rebooting Sierra. I've also noticed another Sierra issue new since 10.12.2: Sometimes the OS gets sluggish due to low graphics card RAM (very noticeable when watching videos) and a reboot fixes it. It can be fixed by swapping the resolution menu for those videos to 1080p or 720p.

And certain videos are still a bit stuttery (but it's rare). For example, 4K video cannot be decoded by a MacBook Pro 2010. Still having stutter means there's most likely too much bitrate for your graphics card to decode on certain videos. That codec change fixes the two main causes of stutter (VP9 and 60 FPS videos). Which allows the video decoding to be hardware-accelerated even on MacBook Pro 2010s. If Stats for Nerds shows a H264 codec in Google Chrome, then you've successfully changed from VP9 to 30fps H264. Note: Use 'avc1.77.30' for compatibility with iOS versions 3.0 to 3.12. Note: Use 'avc1.66.30' for compatibility with iOS versions 3.0 to 3.1.2.

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