Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard

Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by Retr0spectrum on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:31AM (#17415357)

I bought a new laptop recently. I was very close to paying well over £1k on an XPS 13 with an 8th gen quad core i5, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD.

At some point, I came to my senses and bought a used Thinkpad X230 for just £80. I spent £100 on upgrading the RAM and SSD to match those of the XPS I mentioned (I got a rather lucky deal on the SSD). I'm currently planning on spending approximately another £100 on upgrading the display to a 13.3" 1080p IPS panel (which will require some fairly extensive hardware mods).

So, for about a quarter of what I was going to spend on the XPS, I have a machine with roughly comparable specs (Significantly weaker CPU, admittedly), but a much more rugged design with upgradable and moddable hardware.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by bootloop on Thursday June 28, 2018 @08:52AM (#17416410)

I think the XPS 13 series is reasonable priced for what you get and I thing you would not have regretted it if you would have went with that option.

Your changes sound like too much work for a lot of people but its great that you found something fitting your needs at a significantly smaller price point.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by dsego on Thursday June 28, 2018 @06:51PM (#17421116)

That 1k is a week or two of dev work depending on where you live. If you've spent more than a week on procuring that laptop, you haven't actually saved any money.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by Jasonbe on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:21AM (#17416608)

While I applaud your DIY ethics - theres no warranty if parts fail. It also is more effort than most will go though.

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