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Sure, but how will the MacBook hold when it's as old as your Dell?
by skratlo 4y ago
Sure, but how will the MacBook hold when it's as old as your Dell?
- mikestew 4y agoI have no reason to believe my current M1 MBP won’t last as long as my 2012 MBP that’s still running. Why, do you suspect a MacBook isn’t going to last as long as a Dell laptop? I’d love to hear the reasoning for that one.
- goosedragons 4y agoSSD failure. If the SSD dies in a M-series Mac the machine is a brick, can't even boot off an external drive in such a case either because of how they handle the boot process. Meanwhile most every PC laptop uses M.2 socketed SSD and even if it's some weird one that doesn't will still boot off an external drive.
- Tagbert 4y agogoosedragons, When was the last time you had a problem with SSD failure? While I’m sure it happens, I don’t see a lot of complaints from people about their SSD failing.
- rabuse 4y agoIs this a joke? Macbook's hold up very well over the years.
- masklinn 4y agoProbably excellently given a brand new Dell does not hold at all.
- ubermonkey 4y agoIn 20 years, my Macs have proven to be as well-built, hardwarewise, as the best Windows machines I had in the 90s (so, IBM-era Thinkpads). I have one in the house in use as a server that's 12 years old. Runs fine. It's slower than the M1 I'm typing on now (& obviously battery life would be awful) but if I had to I could do work on it.