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What are some of the best purchases of your life?
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Maybe a controversial one:
Macbook (or any Mac for that matter)
I don't mind paying the premium because they just work. I've owned 3 over the last 10 years and each are still running perfectly to this day. No need to ever do anything to them. It helps that I'm not much of a gamer and work in the creative field so they offer everything I need. The M series chips are also blazing fast.
I can totally see how they'd not work for a lot of people though, and I know lots of people love to tinker with PCs!
Lucky you didn't buy the 2011 Macbook Pro like me. The GPUs on this model terminally overheated due to a manufacturing fault. Not the premium experience I was expecting!
Damn yeah that sucks! Was it covered, considering it was a manurfacturing fault?
They did fix this for a short time in 2015/2016 but I had already cut my losses and sold it as spares/repair https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/20/apple-ends-2011-macbook-pro-repair-program/
You could sidestep the issue by modifying the bios to disable the AMD chip, and only use intel integrated video. That did work to give you a somewhat usable laptop & retrieve your data. When you fork out for an Apple product though that is precisely the kind of thing you want to avoid!
Mf you can't even run software if it's more than five years old
๐ I can run everything I need on them tbf
I have a 2015 Macbook still working just fine apart from the battery. I'm planning to get that replaced and I'll keep using it until Apple no longer allows updates. Honestly, it's a really good computer for my needs.
Yeah I've got a 2015 MBP too and it works great! I suppose with any laptop the battery is one that needs to be replaced!