SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal

Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by chrisweekly on Thursday September 27, 2018 @09:21PM (#18090283)

I was just commenting to my wife how remarkable I find it that my 2012 Macbook Pro 15 Retina is meeting all my needs as a software consultant. I used to think 3 years, maybe 4, was the useful lifespan of a high-end machine for daily professional use. In a few months it'll be 7 (seven) years old. It has 3 or 4 dead pixels, but everything else about it is working flawlessly. Maybe they don't make em like they used to, but man have I gotten my money's worth out of this one.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by volkl48 on Thursday September 27, 2018 @11:09PM (#18090685)

That's mostly a function of the general slowdown in the hardware cycle (for most applications).

I have both a Mac and a PC laptop of that vintage and they're both still perfectly suitable for anything short of current gaming or other extreme tasks.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by snowwrestler on Thursday September 27, 2018 @10:57PM (#18090642)

I'm posting this from a Macbook Pro I bought in November 2008. My family uses it daily.

My daily work computer is a 2012 Macbook Air which I dropped from a standing height 4 years ago. It has one bent corner but still runs great.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by visarga on Friday September 28, 2018 @02:16AM (#18091401)

I still have iMacs from 2007 that are being used by my kids. I only upgraded the HDD to SSD a couple of years ago and they work flawlessly. No viruses, no tech support needed for 10 years.

That is just amazing hardware, but on the other hand, I have a pair of AirPods that just can't autoconnect to my MacBook unless I fiddle with the Bluetooth and speaker icons in the toolbar every time. And AirPods were fucking expensive and both are produced by Apple. What gives? How can they be so incompetent in making a wireless device connect to another wireless device?

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by chrisweekly on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:33AM (#18092545)

Yeah Bluetooth sucks, and this is compounded by Apple's subpar BT handling in macOS.

That said, my Sennheiser HD1 headphones are absolutely amazing, and I don't miss being physically tethered to my laptop.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by prewett on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:06AM (#18091546)

I think the problem with the AirPods is Bluetooth. I refuse to use any Bluetooth device because I've never had a pleasant experience with it.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by gambiting on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:51AM (#18091899)

Yep, I'm still using a 2008 MacBook Pro daily - I only replaced the HDD with an SSD and it runs great.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by econ_th0 on Friday September 28, 2018 @06:09AM (#18092193)

i am still using my t420 think pad from 2008

runs perfect

just saying...

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by realharo on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:11AM (#18091562)

I'm still using my mid-2012 Asus laptop that was like €1300 at the time.

I did buy a few upgrades since then (16GB RAM, bigger SSD, new battery) but given that I don't do any gaming, there is very little that a new purschase would get me.

So this is definitely not a Mac-specific thing.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by dpwm on Friday September 28, 2018 @08:18AM (#18092723)

Just to add another datum: Thinkpad T420, 2011. Bought used two years ago and still the best laptop I've ever owned.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by godzillabrennus on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:15AM (#18091248)

I have owned four MacBook Pros since the introduction of the 2012 retina.

The years being 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2017.

The only two working still are the 2012 and the 2017 but I had a warranty swap on the 2017 in early 2018.

That 2012 model is incredible.

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