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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by pvarangot on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:47PM (#29084788)
> a candidate for the bin after the warranty expired, which can be surprisingly quick

All my all Macs sold for great value after I was done with them or got a better one, even with an expired guarantee. It took like a week or two to sell them. I'm still stuck with Thinkpads because the used market is shit.

My last Thinkpad I got kinda impulsively as a workstation for Ableton is my deepest regret. It was a year ago, the Intel MacBooks where not cutting it, it's a great machine and was like 2600 and now I want to go back to an M1 MacBook Pro and it's impossible to sell it anywhere, I feel I just threw away money. A four year old MacBook Pro is worth more on the Apple exchange program than my Thinkpad, it's really sad.

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by GhettoComputers on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @02:21PM (#29085320)
Which one did you get?
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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by pvarangot on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:06PM (#29087366)
It's a P53 with 32gb ram, 1tb SSD, an i7-9750H and a Quadro. It's a beast. It smokes my one year newer similar MacBook Pro because it actually runs at clock rate because it doesn't get as hot. But no one wants it because it's a niche market to have an ugly workstation on your desk. If I could sell it for something like 1600 I would buy an M1 Mac in a brim but it's really though. They go from 600 to 900 on Craigslist, it's insane, I feel really dumb for buying it, a MacBook with half the RAM and SSD goes for 1400 to 1600 and the GPU sucks.

I'm thinking about plugging it to the TV and using it as a Steam console or something like that, my girlfriend games. But it's a fucking expensive console.

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by GhettoComputers on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:16PM (#29087486)
Install hackintosh on it and sell the MacBook.
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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by pvarangot on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:33PM (#29087682)
Yeah it already runs Hackintosh. The MacBook is not mine, it's my work laptop. What I'm saying is instead of the Thinkpad if I had bought anything Apple with similar performance, like an iMac Pro or a Mini Pro, I would be up around 1000 and now that money just disappeared into nothingness because the used market for PCs suck.
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