I spent $800 to build one circa 2011 and tried to use it full time. For that price you got great hardware relative to what Apple was putting in anything close

I spent $800 to build one circa 2011 and tried to use it full time. For that price you got great hardware relative to what Apple was putting in anything close to that price point. There was one bug I couldn't get past... I don't remember exactly what it was now, but it had to do with audio out and the Sound preference pane forgetting about your speakers and having to be opened after every restart. Perhaps someone who's been working on them for a few years can describe it more precisely. I also remember inexplicable kernel panics. And updating the OS was tricky. I ended up using it just a few dozen times, then it mostly collected dust (I still have it today). A lot of that probably had to do with needing a portable computer every day. It was just more convenient to keep everything on a MacBook and dock it to a keyboard and monitor on my desk at home.