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Re:Macs are 3 times cheaper to own than Windows PCs, says IB... by mschuster91 on Friday October 21, 2016 @01:58PM (#12762889)
> The logic boards stress with the constant heat flux and end up breaking.

Oh no. Macbooks do suffer from this! Remember the NVIDIA lead-free-solder fiasco or the issue affecting a boatload of MBPs with Intel GPUs? At least they fixed my Fall 2011 MBP free of charge (logicboard swap). Getting my old Windows laptop fixed with the NV disaster was a whole other story.

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Re:Macs are 3 times cheaper to own than Windows PCs, says IB... by slantyyz on Friday October 21, 2016 @02:47PM (#12763375)
And more recently the spring 2011 MBPs with bad AMD GPUs, and that experience soured me on Macs about a decade after switching back to Mac.
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Re:Macs are 3 times cheaper to own than Windows PCs, says IB... by freehunter on Friday October 21, 2016 @04:46PM (#12764597)
Which is extremely rare. On cheap-ass Windows laptops, it's expected.
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