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I have to say, looking back, this is the first year, in close to 8 years, where I have not bought anything made by Apple. I decided this year to not buy the iPh
by electic 10y ago
I have to say, looking back, this is the first year, in close to 8 years, where I have not bought anything made by Apple. I decided this year to not buy the iPhone 7. I usually upgrade every year and buy the phone outright. But with the headphone jack issue and artificially low throughput on the modem, I decided not to.
I also usually get every new refresh of the Macbook Pro. This year, I decided not to do that either because of the bad specs. I hope Apple can refresh the Macbook Pro with Pro specs so it is a viable purchase again.
- dbbk 10y agoYou buy a brand new MacBook Pro every time it's updated? Isn't that a bit excessive. The performance gains between each update would be almost negligible.
- bryanlarsen 10y agoBy "updated" I assume he means a new generation, which has happened about 4 times almost 11 years. Updating your computer every 3 years doesn't seem unreasonable if you use it for professional purposes: original: Jan 2006, unibody: Oct 2008, retina: Jun 2012, touch bar: Oct 2016. Kind of puts things into perspective: the jump from original to unibody was pretty significant, and the jump to retina was also a massive change.
- dbbk 10y agoThat would be reasonable, I interpreted his comment as every update (every 9ish months)
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- greggman 10y agoIs it? You can sell your old one so it probably works out to a fairly small premium to always get the latest than to say upgrade every 3-4 years and for that premium you always have a new machine
- DiNovi 10y agogive me your money