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> My 10 year old 13" Macbook > My 8 year old iMac There's no PC manufacturer that comes close to Apple build quality. My dad is on a 2009 MBP that runs great.

> My 10 year old 13" Macbook > My 8 year old iMac There's no PC manufacturer that comes close to Apple build quality. My dad is on a 2009 MBP that runs great. Well worth the extra dollars up front. Swapped out the HD for an SSD and that thing is so fast. I'm still on a late 2010 MBA. It could be faster, but I use the cloud for compiling software (a preemptible 1CPU/7.5GB instance on GCE is $0.01/hr, for an extra cent you can get another core). So I don't really understand why people (a) serious people keep buying new computers when old Macs are great and (b) say that Apple products are expensive.

bennyp101 9y ago
True, the build quality is great - thats what attracted me in the first place - but upgradeability is not really a thing with Macs. Sure, I upgraded the HDD, swapped out the SuperDrive for another SSD, but the motherboards only support so much RAM, so once you hit that limit there is not a lot else you can do. Sure, for some people building things in the cloud is fine, but others (like me) I like to have things running where I am. Laptops are obviously a different beast - nobody expects to be able to upgrade every little thing on them, and the Macbook will be staying until such time I can no longer bear to work on it, or it gives up the ghost completely. And I can get a better spec laptop for the same (if not less) price as a new Macbook - and have ports that I can actually use :p