Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 15:48:30 -0400 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu Cc: "User Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: advice for buying a laptop Message-ID: <2dbf8c17dedd15d1b696a92232d655e0.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <mailman.90.1465646402.17615.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.90.1465646402.17615.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, June 10, 2016 12:51, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
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>
> Indeed. I remember some 10 or 15 years ago someone said: having a
> mac is like driving ferrari. Ford or subaru will get you around
> same well, but but ferrari gives you that chic ;-)
>
> Valeri
More like a Benz. My MacBook pro 17" is seven years old as of
February past and still runs well. Actually, really well. Before
this I never had a laptop survive more than three years before some
critical piece of irreplaceable hardware failed. Many not even that
long (Sony Vaio ~9 months, HPQ whatever made with LCM chips only
certified to 40C [saved a fortune in costs -- ~$0.005 per unit -- over
chips certified to80C] ~13 months.)
Unfortunately, contemporary Macs are monolithic beasts. Like the
iPhone you cannot even open them to change a battery; much less add
memory or storage. So bye-bye Apple when I finally do have to
upgrade. But the machine I have is wonderful.
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