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Would these first gen ARM chips not be obsolete by a few years before wearing out the SSD? The SSDs from the previous gen are rated for something like 40Gb wri
by CraigJPerry 6y ago
Would these first gen ARM chips not be obsolete by a few years before wearing out the SSD?
The SSDs from the previous gen are rated for something like 40Gb writes per day for 40 years i think.
I’d guess the battery will fail first, then the keyboard or screen hinge, then the logic board. But thats a pure guess.
I reckon the biggest risk is that all in one logic board, anything fails and you lose your HDD.
- Fnoord 6y ago> Would these first gen ARM chips not be obsolete by a few years before wearing out the SSD? Obsolete, who defines that? I'm typing this on a MBP 2015. Still works perfectly fine (I did have screen replaced under warranty). Battery is replaceable on this machine, its sitting at ~85% capacity with 500 cycles. Apple hardware tends to have good resale value, too. Performance-wise, hardware tends to last longer and longer. Repairability-wise, yeah, that's a can of worms of a discussion.
- CraigJPerry 6y agoI'd say a 2005 PowerPC iBook is obsolete. I'd also say a 2009 intel macbook is obsolete but the truth is, add an SSD into that and it's probably still fine under linux so maybe 2009 isn't obsolete for some users just yet (although i think apple no longer support that hardware). 2015 is modern, intel performance just hasn't changed that much since 2015.