Luckily for all of you on the cusp, there is an upgrade path here that you guys seem to be missing out on. One that Apple early adopters have been doing for the last ten years or so. After the first year of ownership, sell it for $100-200 less than what you paid, and buy the new edition Apple just released. Apple products tend to hold their value better than the competitors, so you should exploit that fact and enjoy new tech. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Jonathan Billings <<a href="mailto:billings@negate.org" target="_blank">billings@negate.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote"> <div class="im">On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:10:41PM -0500, Eduardo Cesconetto wrote: > 5- Life cycle of Apple laptops is waaaaayyyyyy longer then any PC > laptop BECAUSE they are built better… </div>Just for a reference, my wife and I are still using the 12" MacBooks I bought in 2006, running the latest operating system. I did end up buying new hard disks for them last year, but only because the original 70G disks were just getting too small and I could easily replace them with 500G disks (I got the hybrid SSD/spinning disk kind). I plan on putting the next OS on it too. It does have the Intel GMA 950 so it can't play many games, but it's a fine laptop. I do have a home-built workstation at home too, for anything that requires actual "work", I probably won't ever get an Apple desktop computer again. The last Apple-branded desktop I bought was a Performa 645 during college, so I'm quite aware of crappy Apple hardware. However, I've been working with laptops (at job) for a while and the combination of MacOSX and Apple hardware has always been quite good, and as long as you're happy with the limited upgradability, they do last longer than any other vendor's laptops I've ever worked on. Sadly, I think the "ultrabook" form factor is extremely limited in upgradability in a lot of vendor's offerings. I have a Dell XPS-13 ultrabook at work and while a very spiffy system, it's also very limited in what I can do to upgrade it. -- Jonathan Billings <<a href="mailto:billings@negate.org">billings@negate.org</a>> <div class="HOEnZb"> <div class="h5">_______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>