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I've said this in probably a dozen HN comments over the years, but my 2010 MBP is still my favorite computer of all time. It has a matte screen and 4TB of upgra

I've said this in probably a dozen HN comments over the years, but my 2010 MBP is still my favorite computer of all time. It has a matte screen and 4TB of upgradable onboard storage. It was frustrating watching MBPs move progressively farther away from the features I really loved on that machine. Eventually, I jumped ship for the PC world again, where I found the hardware much more inspired. The Airs are already quite powerful machines. Let them carry forward the legacy of the direction of the past several years, and make a truly differentiated offering for folks who do most of their work docked. Also, a hill I will die on is that the Touchbar should have been a new UI paradigm at the bottom of a touchscreen. I'd also dig a Touchbar accessory for my keyboard tray. Just saying. But for the love of god, keep it off my F-key row.

kradeelav 6y ago
Cosigned, and writing this comment on my own faithful 2010 MBP. Still works like a charm, even if some sites don't load due to legacy browsers. Having the correct USB plug-ins for my old-but-durable wacom tablet and an internal CD drive is still critical for my usage and I can't believe some of those parts were the first to go in the madness. Currently tempted to switch to the M1, but still worried about loosing the parts mentioned.
- blue1 6y ago
  Seconded. But why legacy browsers? My mid-2010 MBP, still going strong, runs High Sierra, which supports all current browsers.
  - beckler 6y ago
    I have a early 2011 MBP on High Sierra. I recently reported a bug to Mozilla that I was experiencing in Firefox. They couldn't reproduce it, but it was essentially the integrated graphics are so old in this machine that their new render engine was causing major glitching issues. The solution was to hard code the use of the previous engine for older laptops. This, among a number of other issues made me decide to recently upgrade... but hearing about these old-but-new features makes me want to cancel my order and wait it out a bit longer.
dijksterhuis 6y ago
> my 2010 MBP is still my favorite computer of all time Seconded. Mine has dents all over the body, battery has been replaced a few times, upped the memory and replaced the optical drive with 1TB storage. It's performed surprisingly well for over 10 years. Once had to visit the "geniuses" to replace the logic board after a few years, but that's it really. Its worked in pubs behind the bar, as a live mixer for audio gigs, as a development machine, as a university note making machine... Although now I've got what seems to be a hardware fault with the display where black pixels turn bright green. That and the fact the speakers and microphone are shot to pieces means I'll have to move on soon. End of an era for me. I will miss this machine dearly. -- On jumping ship: if I can work out a way to get iTunes + Apple Music running reliably on Linux I'll be jumping over there asafp. Not liking the software direction (news/rumours?) Apple has taken recently.
egypturnash 6y ago
god I miss matte screens, I really need to find a matte screen cover for my current MBP

kradeelav 6y ago

Cosigned, and writing this comment on my own faithful 2010 MBP. Still works like a charm, even if some sites don't load due to legacy browsers. Having the correct USB plug-ins for my old-but-durable wacom tablet and an internal CD drive is still critical for my usage and I can't believe some of those parts were the first to go in the madness. Currently tempted to switch to the M1, but still worried about loosing the parts mentioned.

blue1 6y ago
Seconded. But why legacy browsers? My mid-2010 MBP, still going strong, runs High Sierra, which supports all current browsers.
- beckler 6y ago
  I have a early 2011 MBP on High Sierra. I recently reported a bug to Mozilla that I was experiencing in Firefox. They couldn't reproduce it, but it was essentially the integrated graphics are so old in this machine that their new render engine was causing major glitching issues. The solution was to hard code the use of the previous engine for older laptops. This, among a number of other issues made me decide to recently upgrade... but hearing about these old-but-new features makes me want to cancel my order and wait it out a bit longer.

dijksterhuis 6y ago

> my 2010 MBP is still my favorite computer of all time Seconded. Mine has dents all over the body, battery has been replaced a few times, upped the memory and replaced the optical drive with 1TB storage. It's performed surprisingly well for over 10 years. Once had to visit the "geniuses" to replace the logic board after a few years, but that's it really. Its worked in pubs behind the bar, as a live mixer for audio gigs, as a development machine, as a university note making machine... Although now I've got what seems to be a hardware fault with the display where black pixels turn bright green. That and the fact the speakers and microphone are shot to pieces means I'll have to move on soon. End of an era for me. I will miss this machine dearly. -- On jumping ship: if I can work out a way to get iTunes + Apple Music running reliably on Linux I'll be jumping over there asafp. Not liking the software direction (news/rumours?) Apple has taken recently.

egypturnash 6y ago

god I miss matte screens, I really need to find a matte screen cover for my current MBP