Re:MacBooks are outdated, underpowered and overpriced
by jerf on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:10PM
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My ~$1000 Dell Studio 17 that I'm typing this on is now 6 years old. A hard drive failed and I once had to open it up to clean out the rather substantial dust bunny that had collected in front of the fan exhaust. I've lost one of the screws for the bottom plate.
That... pretty much runs the damage gamut, knock on wood. Also I have to admit the numeric keypad is pretty dusty. None of the keycaps are even rubbed off. All the ports work. (Or so I assume. I've never tested the firewire or eSATA port.)
(Of course, a true Apple fan wouldn't be caught dead with this brick, but, I'm a pretty big guy. In relative terms it is to me like a 15" is for most people.)
Yes, you can't get quality without paying for it, but... Apple prices have come in above that.
Also just let me point out that I'm on a 6-year-old laptop and while I periodically pop open some shopping websites and browse, I'm almost shocked at how little improvement spending $1000 again would buy me. "A much nicer graphics card" is pretty big, yeah, but that's about it. (I already put an SSD in this thing.) I remember when I could do things like jump from a 486 to a Pentium Pro with 8 times the RAM and 20 times the hard drive etc etc in the same time frame.
That... pretty much runs the damage gamut, knock on wood. Also I have to admit the numeric keypad is pretty dusty. None of the keycaps are even rubbed off. All the ports work. (Or so I assume. I've never tested the firewire or eSATA port.)
(Of course, a true Apple fan wouldn't be caught dead with this brick, but, I'm a pretty big guy. In relative terms it is to me like a 15" is for most people.)
Yes, you can't get quality without paying for it, but... Apple prices have come in above that.
Also just let me point out that I'm on a 6-year-old laptop and while I periodically pop open some shopping websites and browse, I'm almost shocked at how little improvement spending $1000 again would buy me. "A much nicer graphics card" is pretty big, yeah, but that's about it. (I already put an SSD in this thing.) I remember when I could do things like jump from a 486 to a Pentium Pro with 8 times the RAM and 20 times the hard drive etc etc in the same time frame.