"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
06/11/2015 at 14:22 • Filed to: None
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"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
06/11/2015 at 14:22 • Filed to: None | 5
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I just realized that my macbook is now 5 years old. That’s pretty damn old for a computer, however it still works amazingly well! It’s far from mint condition, I mean for god sakes, this is what the bottom looks like!
My macbook has been to hell and back and it’s battery barely holds a charge but I love it. It’s been like a war buddy with me through 3 years of college and I don’t think I could bare to sell it, if anyone would even want to pay more than $100 for it. I do however know that when my buddy’s power supply or motherboard finally blow I’ll definitely replace it with another macbook even if they are overpriced.
MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 14:26 |
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I adore my Macbook Pro. It’s going on around 5 years old now as well and works flawlessly.
Tripper
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 14:28 |
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They’re not really even “overpriced” IMO. When I spec a PC the way I like it it comes out to as much or more than a macbook. All of the dell laptops that I buy for employees at work are $1800 at the very least!
Milky
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 14:28 |
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6 years here and my bottom looks worse! IMO $100 for a new battery is totally worth it, gets you back up to that 7 hour status.
spanfucker retire bitch
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 14:31 |
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Do your wrists have the grooves to prove it from this nice, sharp, clean, edge here?
Lekker
> Tripper
06/11/2015 at 14:33 |
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That is something most people don’t get. Everyone just thinks price tag and doesn’t look at functionality.
Hermann
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 14:33 |
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My MacBook will be 7 in November. Changed a Battery so far and added Memory. Amazing piece of machinery. I see no reasons why replace it.
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Lekker
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 14:34 |
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I miss mine so much :/ these machines last forever as long as you take care of them.. or not, they’re pretty bad ass like that
Klaus Schmoll
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 14:39 |
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My old Aldi laptop lasted a little over 8 years. So let’s talk again in 3.
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Tripper
> Lekker
06/11/2015 at 14:40 |
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Exactly, you can’t buy a mac with shit components in it. That’s why you can buy a new PC for $500 give or take, but Mac’s start around a grand.
TrickJos
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 14:42 |
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My 15” MacBook Pro is also five years old. Still running like a champ and getting about four hours on the battery. My sister is still using my first MacBook, one of the old white ones, that thing is about eight years old now! I really don’t think they’re overpriced when you consider they are upscale products that last a long time.
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spanfucker retire bitch
> Tripper
06/11/2015 at 14:46 |
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Exactly, you can’t buy a mac with shit components in it.
Well that’s just a lie, and anyone who was part of the class action lawsuit against Apple for selling MacBooks with knowingly defective GPUs where the solder would crack under a regular heat load is proof of that.
CalzoneGolem
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 14:46 |
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I have a desktop at home that’s over 10 but I think it is dying. Still interneted just fine until recently.
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Tripper
> spanfucker retire bitch
06/11/2015 at 14:50 |
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Splitting hairs. What I meant is that you can’t buy a mac with a trash AMD board, 2gbs of super slow memory etc...
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spanfucker retire bitch
> Tripper
06/11/2015 at 14:56 |
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But again, you can. About 2 years ago (they may still be doing it) they wouldn’t tell you which kind of controller and NAND your SSD was using. All you knew is that were buying a 256GB SSD, but you could be buying a super fast, super stable Samsung based SSD, or a mucher slower, much less reliable controller from Crucial and/or SandForce.
Boxer_4
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 15:03 |
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At 5 years old, that computer is just getting broken in.
The average age of my fleet is over 13 years old...
R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 15:15 |
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My Asus M50Sv says happy birthday young lad. She’s been in service for 7 years now, and was recently the recipient of a new Samsung 850 Pro and an IDE to SATA optical bay hdd caddy.
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Lekker
> Tripper
06/11/2015 at 15:27 |
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It takes a user to realize how big of a difference it makes. Every time I try to explain this to someone who doesn’t use Macs, has such a strong bias against Apple devices (regardless of their proven performance) that spending time showing the functionality, durability and sturdiness of the components, they fall back to non-facts and try to compare them with every-day devices. A good example was data processing - back in the day I had to run computations against large scale datasets, nearing 25TB each. Ordinary computers/PCs took days, weeks, months even to go through all this datum, but whenever we upgraded to some “standard” run of the mill Mac Book Pros, processing time dropped to minutes. Same data, same process. But I guess not everyone has enough use for them, so they can’t justify the expense. It’s like spending 5k on a racing harness, why do it if you only go to SCCA Auto-x once a year? I can see that point.
That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 15:48 |
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What's shocking is resale value on MacBooks. I just sold a broken 2007 for $200 with no hard drive. So that's worth quite a bit more than $100.
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Tripper
> Lekker
06/11/2015 at 15:52 |
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Agreed. I like to say that I’m not biased as I use windows, osx, and linux (both gui and cl interfaces) on a daily basis. However years ago I started kind of hating computers as I was always working on one. So for my mental health lol, I decided that I would stop consulting on the side and simplify down to one computer in the house. At that time I was a windows/linux biased user, so I bought a Mac mini to further distance myself from routine. It was $600, then I added 16gb ram and an SSD. I have to admit I love it, windows/linux just seem like tools that I use for work now. Even though it’s just as capable, the mac seems simpler. I have since added a beater windows PC, but it sits in the basement plugged into only power and my network for audio/video streaming.
B_dol
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 16:04 |
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My previous MacBook lasted 5.5 years, currently approaching 4 on its replacement. I almost hope it dies (sadly), I would like to migrate over to an iMac setup at home, no need for the laptop post college.
In the same time period, my gf has been through nearly 5 acer/dell/lenovo laptops.
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Lekker
> Tripper
06/11/2015 at 16:18 |
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I can totally relate, as I work on them for a living as well. My area is mostly Unix work, so I’ve always chosen simpler GUIs over fancy stuff, like Windows 8’s tiles. I’m down to one PC however, and the only reason I haven’t gotten another mac is that I do a lot of PC gaming, well used to, but now that I’m getting back into media making - videos, music, etc - I’m eyeing a Mac mini as well. There’s just something to be said for how effective they are. I will agree with you now when I see a UNIX machine I only think work, I used to have 3 or 4 computers all with different flavors of it.
WhiskeyGolf
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 16:21 |
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Mine is from December 2009 and still going. I work for a mobile app development company so from later 2010 up to about 3 months ago, I used it daily. It helps that it had an SSD and full 8GB RAM installed but I hope it keeps going until I can afford the newer 13” machine.
Axial
> Tripper
06/11/2015 at 16:25 |
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No, not quite. For $1800, you have the option of buying a PC with similar hardware and form factor as the Mac, or you can get one with vastly superior components in a bulkier form factor. The iMacs, for example, are using laptop components. They are inherently inferior in performance to their desktop counterparts, and also more expensive because they are made with tighter constraints. You can’t really find any PC equivalent to an iMac, but then again you can’t find a Mac equivalent to a typical PC. The PowerMac is an overall terrible buy no matter which options you select, because the PC with identical hardware will cost far less.
Laptops are similar. There are PC equivalents to the MacBook Pro like the Razer Blade or the ENVY 15, but then there are also PC laptops with hardware so far above what you can get out of a MacBook, or even the iMac, all for the same price as that Razer Blade or ENVY 15. You just have some added bulk. People like to rail on Alienware, but the truth is that Alienware laptops are priced very well for what you are getting: top of the line graphics options that Apple doesn’t offer, great battery life, metal chassis, backlit keyboards, etc.
CaptDale - is secretly British
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 16:47 |
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Mine is also a 2010 Veteran of College life and moving. Though I have kept her in a case and just has a dent from dropping her and a crack in the track pad from my BF stepping on her.
Nibby
> Anon
06/11/2015 at 18:27 |
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I just sold a 2010 13” MacBook Pro for... $400. Just like yours, missing rubber feet on the bottom.
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Anon
> Nibby
06/11/2015 at 18:28 |
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Well I plan on keeping mine until it boots on for the last time!