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This helped me realize why I don't like MacBooks. They aren't really computers. They are big folding smartphones with keyboards.
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>Cars [...] No modifications are done In a lot of places that is highly illegal
Really? Where? In the UK it's legal as long as it still passes MOT, but it should be declared to your insurer.
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Nope, the 520, 420, 220 had a different design
Curious, what's great about it?
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The latest browser itself runs fine as well as most old school websites like Hacker News, it's only the "web apps" that run slowly.
Can't throw more than 4gb in there ? Even 8 makes a big difference.
I just finished completely rebuilding a 2008 and 2010 macbook pro. The older ones are quite serviceable. This round, the speaker surrounds had cracked causing buzzing audio or no audio. I managed to ebay brand new speaker replacements and got them installed. I cleaned everything and re-pasted the CPU/GPU while I was in there as well. They are on El Capitan and High Sierra, but can be patched to be upgraded to Mojave…
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Really? Where? In the UK it's legal as long as it still passes MOT, but it should be declared to your insurer.
Really? When you're talking about car mods, are you talking about adding chrome door handles or are you talking about LS swapping the engine?
I guess what you're really referring to is whether it's still legal to drive on the public highway. As far as I know you can still do anything as long as it still passes the MOT test for roadworthiness. People do engine swaps. You do have to consider insurance, though, which is also a legal requirement for use on the public highway. General insurers typically won't insure modified cars, but there are specialist insurers that will.
As I understand the US is far more lax in its vehicle testing than other places, but this isn't really related to ownership and being able to modify things you own.
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Really? When you're talking about car mods, are you talking about adding chrome door handles or are you talking about LS swapping the engine?
You can do absolutely anything to things you own, including cars. That's kinda the point of ownership. Cut it in half if you want. Smash it to pieces. It's all good. I guess what you're really referring to is whether it's still legal to drive on the public highway. As far as I know you can still do anything as long as it still passes the MOT test for roadworthiness. People do engine swaps. You do have to consider ins…
It's illegal to drive without insurance. This effectively means that engine swaps are illegal, unless you are rich enough to afford some special insurance
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> the only thing you will be able to replace is the battery and the screen. Both which 99% users never have to replace. This is sarcasm, I hope, right? The two most consumable items in the laptop (specially for OLED screens), and you're suggesting users have no need to replace them?
Yes that's exactly what I'm suggesting. The two things I never had to replace since I got my first laptop in the late 90s, not do I know anyone who had to replace those.
But the battery degrades even if it is not being used. For whatever reason, you are misinforming people here.
It's running Win7 and I only use it for RDP onto work. The battery is screwed, perhaps lasts 10 seconds so just enough to cover quickly moving it.
[1] 1920 x 1200 and very matt. It's just stunningly clear and easy on the eyes with great colour rendition.
The tightness of hardware integration isn't a bug, it's genuinely a feature; In fact, it's the defining feature that makes Apple hardware great. Socketed RAM, CPU, and Storage just weren't worth the tradeoffs, namely size, weight, cost, and performance. Including those modular interfaces just wasn't worth it when the internal interfaces would be obsolete within 5 years, and the average user was replacing sub-componen…
> Socketed RAM CUDIMM is changeable and fast. > The user being able to swap parts easily is _neat_ but it's just not an required feature Mostly because people seem to have forgotten that it was possible. Often laptops are slow to due either a too full disk and/or not enough memory. It used to be more common to upgrade those. But apparently that knowledge/skill is forgotten and it's now more custom to buy a new device…