If you're in New York City you're up way past your bedtime go to bed. Zzzzz
I live backwards, Rita; unless it's a beach day, I sleep 'til 5 PM and stay up all night...been like that for 60 years since all the way back in high school when I realized that the world didn't end when my parents went to sleep.
I'm going to recommend that you stick with your Mid 2012 MBP.
This screenshot is a side-by side of Mactracker's enumeration of the specs of your current MBP and the October 2016 model you're considering. (You can double-check that I've got your Mac right by navigating to /Applications/Utilities/System Information > Hardware Overview and verifying that its Model Identifier is MacBookPro9,2.)
The critical piece of info is the October 2016 "Discontinued" date for your MBP, which, translated into simple english, means that you've
essentially got a new machine. (
The Apple Refurbished Store is currently selling
YOUR EXACT MBP [one of which I recently advised my daughter to buy, by the way]. $829 = VERY
.)
Macs go "Vintage" five years after they're discontinued, at which point Apple will no longer service or supply parts for them, but since your MBP was first discontinued in October 2016 (By comparison, its 15" brother was discontinued in October 2013.), it will be "Supported" until October 2021
and be able to benefit from at least several future macOS upGRADES.
I don't think the newer machine offers any necessary for you performance upgrades, and even though it's significantly lighter than your current one (which I don't think is important to you), it's at the cost of a disc drive, a number of useful ports, and assorted other features.
(Found it!) I'll stick with my suggestion that you get your MBP to a Genius Bar and have it diagnosed...
before you buy a new Mac or even spend $100 on DiskWarrior.
I don't see anything in any of your posts that convinces me that you actually NEED a new Mac, and unless you're hot to spend money, I say stick with what you've got.
You've lucked into the Mac that's been blessed with perhaps the longest life Apple has ever bestowed on a machine. Why waste it?
(If you'r really desperate to spend a few bucks, I think you ought to upgrade your RAM as suggested by tacit in another thread and upgrade your HDD to an SSD [assuming that the Genius resurrects you MBP]; I'll bet that you'll be immensely pleased with the outcome.)
