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Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect by cs02rm0 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:39AM (#18969527)
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.

Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect by bdcravens on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:20PM (#18970047)
> I fear I'm going Linux on a Dell XPS at some point this year and I hated the last Dell I had.

Why not something like a ThinkPad?

Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect by mikenew on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:50PM (#18970395)
I'm considering the same move for the same reasons. What did you hate about the Dell?