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I bought the first white x86 MacBook on the day it was announced, and it went pretty well. There was one design issue that needed fixed in the first year, but o

I bought the first white x86 MacBook on the day it was announced, and it went pretty well. There was one design issue that needed fixed in the first year, but other than that it was a solid laptop for 5 years or more till it finally died. I would have waited, but I was extending the life of the previous tibook for a year prior. I’m not in the market for a laptop now, but I’m really curious about what’s in the pipeline. Oddly enough, My MBP is about as old as the tibook was in that transition, but it’s not feeling slow or ole enough to replace yet.

read_if_gay_ 6y ago
> My MBP is about as old as the tibook was in that transition, but it’s not feeling slow or ole enough to replace yet. I guess you can thank Intel for a decade of stagnation.
- wiredfool 6y ago
  I think the 2015 era MBP was also a much more durable physical design than the Titanium Powerbook g4. The keyboard is more solid, there's no paint to rub off, the panel over the dvd doesn't flex, the battery connections don't flex. Magsafe is also a better power connector than the coax plugs.
  - als0 6y ago
    Did the 2015 MBP have a DVD player? Mine doesn't.
    - wiredfool 6y ago
      No, and it's way more solid for that. The previous Unibody ones did.
AnthonyMouse 6y ago
There were a lot of teething problems with the first generation of Intel Macs. The Mac Pro had 32-bit EFI, which was a strange choice (it was a 64-bit machine), and which they then pretty quickly decided they didn't want to support anymore. The first x86 Mini was a 32-bit CPU with the same result. They required specific GPU firmware, so you couldn't just take a GPU out of a PC, but one of the GPUs they shipped with had a high failure rate (bad capacitors) and consequently became rare and expensive. Who knows if they'll do better this time. But the not knowing in itself is a pretty good reason to let somebody else be the guinea pig.

read_if_gay_ 6y ago

> My MBP is about as old as the tibook was in that transition, but it’s not feeling slow or ole enough to replace yet. I guess you can thank Intel for a decade of stagnation.

wiredfool 6y ago
I think the 2015 era MBP was also a much more durable physical design than the Titanium Powerbook g4. The keyboard is more solid, there's no paint to rub off, the panel over the dvd doesn't flex, the battery connections don't flex. Magsafe is also a better power connector than the coax plugs.
- als0 6y ago
  Did the 2015 MBP have a DVD player? Mine doesn't.
  - wiredfool 6y ago
    No, and it's way more solid for that. The previous Unibody ones did.

AnthonyMouse 6y ago

There were a lot of teething problems with the first generation of Intel Macs. The Mac Pro had 32-bit EFI, which was a strange choice (it was a 64-bit machine), and which they then pretty quickly decided they didn't want to support anymore. The first x86 Mini was a 32-bit CPU with the same result. They required specific GPU firmware, so you couldn't just take a GPU out of a PC, but one of the GPUs they shipped with had a high failure rate (bad capacitors) and consequently became rare and expensive. Who knows if they'll do better this time. But the not knowing in itself is a pretty good reason to let somebody else be the guinea pig.