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BEWARE! 
If you are running Little Snitch network monitoring software, you need to disable its network filtering PRIOR to upgrading or you will wind up with a machine with NO networking!  Yes, you can go into Little Snitch after the upgrade, ignore the popup that this version is incompatible with macOS 14, disable network filtering, then reboot the Mac at which time you should once again have networking.  Then you can go into Little Snitch, download the upgrade, reenable network filtering and you will be back in business.  Depending on software update notifications won't catch this one for some reason as I did all the ones that were showing as needed prior to commencing the upgrade to Sonoma.

I am among those still using a mid 2012 non-retina 15" MBP.  My daughter gave me this machine as a christmas present in late 2012.  Without question, a fine example of solid engineering.  This machine was the last of the totally user repairable notebooks Apple made.  This machine has a full compliment of ports with NO dongles needed!  I upgraded the ram over time to its max 16GB.  I upgraded the HDD several times (started life as a 256MB HDD).  I swapped out the super drive (CD/DVD burner) for an SSD (initially a relatively small one to just hold the OS).  I upgraded the SSD to a larger one and rolled the SSD and HDD into a FUSION drive using the tools apple made available to anyone comfortable with the command line, which I ran with zero issues for several years.  I upgraded to 1TB SSD and a 1TB HDD and moved to APFS once Catalina came along using the HDD as an in-machine daily clone backup drive (used SuperDuper until Big Sur negated the ability to easily create a bootable clone).  The 1TB HDD is still used as an in-machine Time Machine drive for Big Sur.   I have replaced the keyboard only ONCE in that entire time. I have replaced the battery twice.  Both fans have been replaced and most recently I replaced the right side speakers as the woofer section had started to rattle. I upgraded the machine to Big Sur using a popular patching program along with an upgrade to the latest Broadcom WiFi/BT card (thanks to an enterprising young man) and am running 11.2 currently with no issues outside the ones that are plaguing even the newest MBPs.  The logic board nor the display on this machine have ever faltered. This machine is fast, reliable and delight to use.  While the new MBPs are lighter and have longer battery life, they hold little performance edge over this machine in my day to day use of the machine as INTEL has done little to really advance processors in a meaningful way over the years since this machine was designed.

I am aware that eventually, I will have to break down and buy a new MBP.  The new M series processors are a harbinger that the time for such a change is approaching sooner than later.  However,  I will never again own a computing device that will work as hard, as reliably, for such a long time as my trusty mid 2012 15" MBP.    

And they made the space black SS (DLC) case exclusive to the Hermes edition. 

The black SS DLC is STILL available, but they have made it exclusive the Hermes edition.  The cheapest version is now just pennies under $1300.  I have purchased the black SS every year since series 0 and was really bummed by the move.  I debated not messing with the Series 6 but decided to try the space black titanium case as it should still match my original series 0 black stainless link band and all the other bands that I have collected over these years.

The_Martini_Cat said:

Ha ha does this include the 50-cent deposit on your shopping cart?  Last time I was at Aldi there were 3 people gathered around the shopping cart dispenser trying to figure it out.  (I just carried a bag in with me ... & the checker-outer wouldn't even put my groceries into it.  DIY as-much-as-possible)  Cheers! 

One thing you NEVER see around an Aldi store is wandering carts in the parking lot.  That simple 25cent deposit works wonders to get people to walk the short distance to return their cart, lock it to the others and get BACK their 25 cents.  

We really like Aldi for a lot of items and shop there pretty much weekly so Apple Pay will just make it all the better!