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Honestly, I suspect that lot of the slowdowns that people see in ~4+ year old Macs, iPads, or iPhones is in large part due to degradation in flash storage, espe
by selimnairb 5y ago
Honestly, I suspect that lot of the slowdowns that people see in ~4+ year old Macs, iPads, or iPhones is in large part due to degradation in flash storage, especially in ca. 2013 MacBook Pros where the flash modules were still kind of shitty. This is all the more reason why Pro-level Macs should not have soldered on SSDs.
The original poster switched to a MacBook Pro at a bad time. The 2016/2017 machines were lousy. The 2019 models are better, but still not as good as the 2015. I think with the addition of the T1/T2 chip and BridgeOS, the machines got too complicated. Add in the poor thermals of the overly thin case, and the relatively high TDP of the discrete GPUs, and it is a recipe for un-reliability. I hope that the new AppleSilicon-based MacBook Pros will solve all of these problems. (and it will be a bonus of they back away from the USB-C only cliff.)