M1 Macs Review - Hackdot

Re:M1 Macs Review by Fnoord on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:53PM (#25154822)

> Would these first gen ARM chips not be obsolete by a few years before wearing out the SSD?

Obsolete, who defines that?

I'm typing this on a MBP 2015. Still works perfectly fine (I did have screen replaced under warranty). Battery is replaceable on this machine, its sitting at ~85% capacity with 500 cycles. Apple hardware tends to have good resale value, too.

Performance-wise, hardware tends to last longer and longer. Repairability-wise, yeah, that's a can of worms of a discussion.

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Re:M1 Macs Review by CraigJPerry on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:52AM (#25158580)

I'd say a 2005 PowerPC iBook is obsolete. I'd also say a 2009 intel macbook is obsolete but the truth is, add an SSD into that and it's probably still fine under linux so maybe 2009 isn't obsolete for some users just yet (although i think apple no longer support that hardware). 2015 is modern, intel performance just hasn't changed that much since 2015.

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