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If you don't give a shit about design, get one of the other million laptops that are available. The MacBook doesn't try to be everyone's everything. That's part

If you don't give a shit about design, get one of the other million laptops that are available. The MacBook doesn't try to be everyone's everything. That's part of what makes it such a good device. I don't understand why people fail to understand that thinner, lighter and better looking are things that millions of people want. If that's not you, you seriously couldn't have more options available.

rileymat2 10y ago
You make a good point, and for those people the Macbook should be a great machine. The disappointment is for the "Pro" market, as in Macbook "Pro".
- kefka 10y ago
  The "Pro" stands for "Problematic". But yeah, my next machine purchase will not be an Apple. If I need OSX support, I'll look at the current Hackintosh install lists and go VM.
- poikniok 10y ago
  The name is just a name, and Apple is not beholden to staying within what you think is "Pro". I consider myself a "Pro" and I like all of those things.
teekert 10y ago
There is quite a big gap between not giving a shit about design and accepting some screws (like on my 2011 mbp, it's as beautiful as the glued models but I can access everything from the bottom.) It is a business decision, not a design decision to not allow you to open up your laptop. Indeed they think your are sad when using a 5 y/o laptop, but my 5 y/o mbp has a fast 1TB ssd and 16 GB's of ram even though those were not available at the time (the corei7 CPU it came with is still very fast as well). And those "more" options do not include osX powered machines anymore.