Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect
by brk on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:11AM
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I'm in the same position. My MBA has got to be 5 years old. I would be willing to replace/upgrade it, yet everything current seems like a compromise in some way (if not compromise in direct features, compromise in what you really net in upgraded performance for the price).
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Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect
by cs02rm0 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:39AM
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Likewise, I've a late 2013, i7 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.
Things have moved on, it's been 5 years, but not that much. And my MBP still works. I only intended on having it for 2-3 years before upgrading - it's paid for by my business and is critical to my work.
And yet what's putting me off a new purchase is that the new models are vastly less attractive propositions than they would have been had they just followed pace without touchbars, butterfly keyboards, T2 chips and thin wires you can't replace.
Apple today seem lost with respect to Macbooks and I can't see things improving. I fear I'm going Linux on a Dell XPS at some point this year and I hated the last Dell I had.