Because new MBPs have their RAM soldered and instead of SSDs weird NVMe sticks which you can't just put into an old Mac Pro/iMac and keep on working (or trivially upgrade). Oh and you can't just simply swap the battery (I needed < 5 minutes). Oh, and the new ones don't have basic stuff like Ethernet connectors, DVD drives, Firewire connectors or connectors in general. I don't want to carry around a box of flimsy adapters!

Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick to my trustworthy Fall 2011 MBP.

>> Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick to my trustworthy Fall 2011 MBP.

You're very lucky you don't have an early 2011 MBP. Infamously untrustworthy. If I had waited a few months to get your model or the 2012 model, I'd probably still be a Mac user.

Funny enough, we have about 50 Spring 2011 MBPs in service, no major failures yet except people drenching their MBPs in coffee and letting them fall (disks broken).

I probably should have been more specific, but it applied mainly to 15" Quad-Core i7 with discrete AMD GPUs.

A friend of mine who had two of the same model also had the same GPU overheating issues.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/petition-demands-apple-fi...

> You're very lucky you don't have an early 2011 MBP

I have one. Still works great.

15" with Quad Core i7 and AMD GPU?

-edit 13" models did not have this issue

In theory that $300 was a fix and then business as usual. Ignoring the cost of a new machine, time to sell + buy + setup may cost far greater than $300.

> buy a new one

Which would cost way more than $300 and presumably right before it failed it was working fine for them.