The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable

Re:The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable by moystard on Friday June 15, 2012 @09:27AM (#4116336)

Mea culpa for the recycling part then. I think the upgrade point is still huge:

The MBP 2009 that I mention in my previous post has been upgraded twice (RAM and HD). That has allowed me to keep it for three years and in my opinion has justified spending that amount of money in a laptop (2000 euros at that time). I don't know if I would put the same amount if I knew I could not upgrade it.

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Re:The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable by rayiner on Friday June 15, 2012 @11:23AM (#4116956)

I don't know if the European Apple-tax makes this tenable, but I just sell my MBP on EBay every year or two. A 16-month old MBP 13.3" is selling for about 70% of its original price on EBay. If you do this three times in four years, you'll have paid about as much as the original price of the machine, for about as long as you were going to keep the machine anyway, but will get little upgrades over time as Apple upgrades that model #.

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Re:The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable by vacri on Saturday June 16, 2012 @03:47AM (#4120102)

Plus the labour cost of setting up each new machine and transferring your gear, plus the labour costs of posting and selling the old unit.

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