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So, today, for the first time in *25* years of Apple, I downgraded

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Re: So, today, for the first time in *25* years of Apple, I downgraded

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Post by rzzzt »

ericabiz wrote: post #22
InclinedPlane wrote: post #13

Honestly I'm shocked that there isn't a company in the SFBA that just buys up busted 2015 MBPs and refurbs them to sell at a much higher price. Maybe they're afraid of getting sued into oblivion by Apple. Or maybe time travelers from the future are depleting our recent timeline of 2015 MBPs.

Repair shop owner here. A 2015 MBP is basically 3 parts: the screen, the logic board, and what Apple calls the “top case” (the metal component where your keyboard and trackpad hang out.) RAM went bad? Tough, it’s soldered onto the board. LCD cracked? Well, Apple doesn’t make parts easily available to anyone except Apple, so unless you’re Apple authorized, you’re stuck buying them from resellers who’ve stripped them f…

Would a RAM socket and a regular module physically fit in place of the soldered-on module?

Re: So, today, for the first time in *25* years of Apple, I downgraded

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Post by majewsky »

romwell wrote: post #25
beloch wrote: post #8

It always pays to look at the alternatives. Sometimes the latest isn't the greatest. Unfortunately, time is particularly cruel to computing hardware and software. Downgrading to an old laptop is, at best, a temporary fix. The author of this article should consider other OS's and hardware manufacturers.

>Unfortunately, time is particularly cruel to computing hardware Not anymore, not really so. A desktop I own from 2008 is still usable for daily browsing after an SSD upgrade, and runs all the games I care about playing (given that I play rarely).

Agreed. I just purchased a new notebook, and it was really odd to switch to a new machine that's not phenomenally better than the old one in multiple ways. When I switched from a 2008 Dell Inspiron to a 2012 Asus Zenbook, it was a huge upgrade: dim 720p -> bright 1080p, HDD -> SSD, much more compact, much lighter. My new notebook is basically the same than the old one, except with newer components all around and better upgradability. (The soldered-in 4 GB RAM was the only real issue with the Zenbook.)

Re: So, today, for the first time in *25* years of Apple, I downgraded

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Post by jinushaun »

_wmd wrote: post #9

Got tired of re-buying 2011 Macbook Pros because it was getting kinda ridiculous. Decided the only things I actually care about are Lightroom, the keyboard, decent drivers and power management, and a terminal app. New machine is a Dell XPS 15 running Windows. Keyboard and build is almost identical to Macbook, no N-key rollover but I can live without. Otherwise, meh, why is everyone still so attached to these dumb ove…

Because my experience with Dell laptops have been the exact opposite over the years across many devices. I now avoid Dell hardware
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