My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs

Post by thanksforfish » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:46 PM UTC

deltarholamda wrote: post #133

theonlybutlet wrote: post #57

Don't know what they're like these days but my 2011 Lenovo Thinkpad works great! Solid laptop, replaced the keyboard once aside from that still going strong.

Maybe it has something to do with the year 2011. My 2011 Macbook Pro 13" is still alive and kicking. With max 16GB RAM and replacing the spinning rust with an SSD, it's remarkably nimble as well. It's done a lot of travelling, and I've replaced the battery 3 times due to battery life going down too far. I finally upgraded to an M1 Macbook Air, which is also really nice, but the number of miles on that old axe was imp…

Post by blagie » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:49 PM UTC

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #379

robertlf wrote: post #127

As long as we're having a big bitch-fest here, I'll throw in my $.02. Other than expanding batteries, my laptops have generally been trouble-free. But the problem I do have is that the older my MBP, the slower it becomes when I upgrade the OS. When I upgraded my 2015 to Big Sur last year, it essentially became unusable because it ran so slowly. It now sits in my closet. Apple should stop nagging you to upgrade the OS…

"Apple should stop nagging you to upgrade the OS if your hardware wasn't built to support the newer versions." When Apple introduced OSX I refused to upgrade a G4; I stayed on OS9. I never connected that computer to the internet, it was only used as a DAW. This "upgrade the OS" nonsense is an old trick. Microsoft made it infamous. I had Windows computers back in the day, late 90s, where I only upgraded the hardware,…

Post by avtar » Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 12:01 AM UTC

tistoon wrote: post #322

fouc wrote: post #316

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You should downgrade it back to MacOS 10.x version range. I'm still on 10.13 myself, I don't feel any strong urges to upgrade to Mojave or Catalina. If I stopped using homebrew and started using macports or pkgsrc I'd probably be even less bothered by needing to upgrade. (homebrew is pretty shitty with older OSes) I'm also on a 2015 MBP that's still going strong. It's snappy and I'm happy. I upgraded the SSD last yea…

I would like to upgrade my disk while keeping the OS version (clone?). Could you please tell me how did you do?

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 12:09 AM UTC

mixedCase wrote: post #347

riffic wrote: post #292

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I'd prefer a system that was a bit more durable and also put the consumables in a place where they were easily accessed. we've reached the point where all advantages to devices being smaller and lighter are diminished returns.

If you care about maintainability, you're just not the market Macbooks are optimized for. While most brand-new laptops have unfortunately dropped externally removable batteries altogether, you can still find plenty that have internal user-replaceable ones. At home I have a work-provided Dell Latitude, a Thinkpad T470 my SO uses and my own Thinkpad T490. Very happy with all of them 'cept mine has a shitty screen that…

Post by pqvst » Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 12:13 AM UTC

CrendKing wrote: post #368

> As much as I don’t want to buy another Mac in the future, I have a feeling that I probably will. If my laptop has 13 repairs over the first 2 years of use (and under "very well treatment"), I would consider the laptop a scam and never buy from that manufacturer. But since the machine got an Apple logo on it, somehow all the problems become material for praising their repair services. If this is not symptom of Stock…