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It's crazy how good apples are. I have a 2013 MacBook Air which I replaced batteries now after 10 years. Still as fast and snappy as day 1. It is crazy.
by ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago
It's crazy how good apples are. I have a 2013 MacBook Air which I replaced batteries now after 10 years. Still as fast and snappy as day 1. It is crazy.
- pmontra 4y agoI can't say the same thing about my HP ZBook from 2014. Reason: it's snappier now after I upgraded the RAM from 16 to 32 GB and swapped the HDD for two SSDs years ago.
- ilrwbwrkhv 4y agoThe Air didn't receive any hardware upgrades though, apart from a new battery.
- pmontra 4y agoI didn't check the specs of that Air, but is it upgradeable? If it is, maybe you could make it faster too. Anyway, there is no reason for your Air to be slower after 10 years. The hardware is the same. Either Apple makes a slower OS for it or it will be as fast as ever. In my case I moved to Debian two months ago after years of Ubuntu. It was fast enough but it feels faster now. The fan didn't turn on often but it's even more silent now. Maybe less stuff running in background or a newer kernel and graphic driver, who knows. On the other side, my friend's cheap Windows laptops become slower and slower until they buy a new one. I'm not sure to know somebody with a 2000 Euro Windows laptop. Maybe it's different.
- duffyjp 4y agoI use my 2011 13" MacBook Pro daily, though the OS is so out of date I don't log into my Apple ID with it or even Chrome. Media consumption, ssh to servers, web browsing is all super fast still. I even use Parsec to game on it connecting to my PC in the basement, it does so perfectly. I replaced the battery twice, but otherwise it's been issue-free. 16gb ram and an SSD gave it a new life. Some stuff the dual core i5 just can't handle anymore, but it won't be e-waste any time soon.