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I bought a Mid-2012 in late 2015 partly for this reason. If the hard drive dies, I should be able to swap it out myself. Apple's maximum storage was 1TB when
by SyneRyder 10y ago
I bought a Mid-2012 in late 2015 partly for this reason. If the hard drive dies, I should be able to swap it out myself. Apple's maximum storage was 1TB when I bought it, but I'll be able to upgrade this machine to a 2TB SSD if I want.
I still miss the 2006 MacBook design though. That made replacing the hard drive, RAM & battery extremely easy to do yourself.
- seanp2k2 10y agoOr just get a Thinkpad or Inspiron where the hdd, DVD drive, wifi card, battery, and ram all just snap into place. Apple has never been good at that, but in return you get a bit more solid (physically) piece of kit.
- SyneRyder 10y agoThat's probably the direction I'm going in future. At the moment I need macOS because it's a platform I develop for, but if the Mac market tanks enough that I can drop my Mac lineup, then I'll move back to a Windows / Linux laptop. A large part of my Mac use is in Windows VMs anyway.