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If you'll decide to go with pre-2016 MacBook, find a Louis Rossmann video about what mac to buy. He repairs MacBooks for a long time and thus has a good idea about which model will serve you the longest. As I recall, his recommendation was to go with some 2014 model instead of 2015 because of some faults 2015s had. Of course, you'll need to weigh it against the performance differences between the two.
the problem with this is that he repairs laptops from people who don’t know how to take care of them so the problems he’s repairing will likely never be a problem for someone here. i’ve never once had any of the problems in any of his videos (or even a problem at all). he sure talks shit about apple like they’re all junk though.
1. dGPU that's soldered poorly and whuch thus gets cracks in solder balls after repeated heat cycling because the cooling solution and fan curve is not tuned for performance.
2. Motherboards being poorly supported, which leads to them flexing a little every time the laptop is opened and clised, which leads to components becoming desoldered due to cracks in the solder.
3. On the newer macbooks he says that there are chips that just die randomly, as he's had specimens that were quite new and without a sign of bad handling on the inside and out and yet a chip has gone bad all of a sudden.