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I am not so sure I will buy another MacBook no matter what processor they put in it. I just got back from the Apple Store. My 2013 MacBook pro is hard crashin

by tmaly 9y ago

I am not so sure I will buy another MacBook no matter what processor they put in it. I just got back from the Apple Store. My 2013 MacBook pro is hard crashing, no logs being written. Most likely a hardware defect. They tried formatting and re-installing a fresh copy of OSX. It crashed during the re-install. They tried booting it up in a special diagnostic mode and it crashed in that mode, which should not have happened. I bought this in December 2013 so its almost 3.5 years old. The minimum it would cost me to fix it is $475 which to me is too much to pay given the age of the machine and the cost of a new machine. I contrast this with a Dell laptop I bought in 2001 that is still running today in 2017. The Apple care insurance they sell can at most get you 3 years total coverage. This would not have helped me in this case. I am going to explore other computer brands at this point.

jarym 9y ago
Doing the same - Dell 15" kitted out with 32Gb RAM for me. The 'Pro' moniker is just a marketing gimmick these days.
- tmaly 9y ago
  I wonder why the down vote. my comment was totally on topic about the hardware and my experience with it.
  - jarym 9y ago
    Fanboy attack. Logic out the window.
    - tmaly 9y ago
      whatever it is, it is not healthy for the community on here.
  - ricardobeat 9y ago
    Maybe downvotes are because of your comparison of a 2013 MBP to a 2001 Dell laptop? My personal experience is seeing Dell, HP, Fujitsu and other brand laptops completely disintegrate in a 3-year timespan, with Apple hardware easily outliving them - hardware issues eventually appear, but overall condition, specially mechanical, is not even in the same league.
    - tmaly 9y ago
      I was simply comparing what hardware experience I have had. I also have a 2005 acer laptop and a 2011 asus netbook that are still running fine today. There is something to be said about warranties that you learn in engineering school. The time period they cover is always calculated such that the majority of faults across the majority of customers will not occur inside of the window they cover.
    - rosser 9y ago
      Countering one anecdote with another doesn't really settle anything.

by tmaly 9y ago

jarym 9y ago

Doing the same - Dell 15" kitted out with 32Gb RAM for me. The 'Pro' moniker is just a marketing gimmick these days.

tmaly 9y ago
I wonder why the down vote. my comment was totally on topic about the hardware and my experience with it.
- jarym 9y ago
  Fanboy attack. Logic out the window.
  - tmaly 9y ago
    whatever it is, it is not healthy for the community on here.
- ricardobeat 9y ago
  Maybe downvotes are because of your comparison of a 2013 MBP to a 2001 Dell laptop? My personal experience is seeing Dell, HP, Fujitsu and other brand laptops completely disintegrate in a 3-year timespan, with Apple hardware easily outliving them - hardware issues eventually appear, but overall condition, specially mechanical, is not even in the same league.
  - tmaly 9y ago
    I was simply comparing what hardware experience I have had. I also have a 2005 acer laptop and a 2011 asus netbook that are still running fine today. There is something to be said about warranties that you learn in engineering school. The time period they cover is always calculated such that the majority of faults across the majority of customers will not occur inside of the window they cover.
  - rosser 9y ago
    Countering one anecdote with another doesn't really settle anything.