[GLLUG] So the new Macbook Pro...

[Karl Schuttler]

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.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>wrote:

> 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…
>
> 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 <billings at negate.org>
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