Re:Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown
by joshuapants on Friday April 17, 2015 @11:43AM
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I'm posting from a 2011 MBP right now and I have to say it's getting pretty long in the tooth, particularly because it doesn't work very well at all with Yosemite. I suppose I could install Linux, but my experience with Apple's hardware running other operating systems hasn't been great.
> Which products does apple sell that only last this long?
My own experience with iPhones has been that as new software comes out, they get slower and less stable. My MBP, as mentioned above doesn't give me great hope for its future (for reference I have a Thinkpad from 2008 that's still trucking along nicely with Linux, and when I do boot into Windows it performs nicely). I don't think that Apple is any worse than competitors in the same price range, but that doesn't mean they all shouldn't strive to be better.
My iPad is also 3 years old and I will probably not update it until 5 years or so. Even then I will just give it to a family member so it will still have a useful life after me.
>Creating products that will be useful for 10+ years instead of until the next model cycle.
Which products does apple sell that only last this long? Most of my old phones have gone to either family members, craigslist/ebay or resellers like Gazelle.