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I have an ancient mid-2009 MacBook. I walked out the Apple retailer and straight into a cut-price PC parts shop and upgraded the ram and hard drive to avoid som

by shirro 11y ago

I have an ancient mid-2009 MacBook. I walked out the Apple retailer and straight into a cut-price PC parts shop and upgraded the ram and hard drive to avoid some Apple tax. I am probably overdue to replace my second battery but I haven't been travelling much for awhile. My second or third HDD was swapped for an SSD quite some time ago. It wouldn't be fast enough for some jobs but as long as I have browser and terminal I cope ok. I have been going to replace it for years but Apple keep on making more and more unserviceable hardware. I am a very satisfied Apple customer who will never buy another Apple product. When this machine dies I will buy a quality laptop that isn't disposable and run Linux again.

escap 11y ago
> I will buy a quality laptop that isn't disposable and run Linux again. you have a model to suggest ?
- shirro 11y ago
  Not really. The Mac keeps on going. I lost interest and stopped looking. I bought a nice carbon road bike instead. Much better investment for me. All those components I can adjust, swap and upgrade for the life of the bike. Jobs wanted using a computer to be like riding a bike. Here we are in 2016 and I can still upgrade a bike. No hope with the shit the computer industry is making. At one stage I thought I should put business Dell's way because they made an effort shipping some XPS-13 with Ubuntu but they were limited to 8GB. I had that in 2009. What is the point? The nail in the coffin for an upgrade was when I bought a Chromebook to play with. I realised I could just about live with a machine that only had a terminal and browser. I moved local dev to VPS and I can scale that however I want, whenever I want. No concerns about soldered in RAM there. The Chromebook was a bit flakey so I went back to the Mac, deleted a heap of virtual machines and containers and apps and I pretty much live in Chrome and iTerm2 now and feel less pressure to change than I did two years ago.
- jseliger 11y ago
  Librem: https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-13 https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-13. I gave $10 to their initial Kickstarter!

by shirro 11y ago

escap 11y ago

> I will buy a quality laptop that isn't disposable and run Linux again. you have a model to suggest ?

shirro 11y ago
Not really. The Mac keeps on going. I lost interest and stopped looking. I bought a nice carbon road bike instead. Much better investment for me. All those components I can adjust, swap and upgrade for the life of the bike. Jobs wanted using a computer to be like riding a bike. Here we are in 2016 and I can still upgrade a bike. No hope with the shit the computer industry is making. At one stage I thought I should put business Dell's way because they made an effort shipping some XPS-13 with Ubuntu but they were limited to 8GB. I had that in 2009. What is the point? The nail in the coffin for an upgrade was when I bought a Chromebook to play with. I realised I could just about live with a machine that only had a terminal and browser. I moved local dev to VPS and I can scale that however I want, whenever I want. No concerns about soldered in RAM there. The Chromebook was a bit flakey so I went back to the Mac, deleted a heap of virtual machines and containers and apps and I pretty much live in Chrome and iTerm2 now and feel less pressure to change than I did two years ago.
jseliger 11y ago
Librem: https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-13 https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-13. I gave $10 to their initial Kickstarter!