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Funny that we can buy renewed Intel Macs for less than $200 and do exactly the same.
by readyplayernull 2y ago
Funny that we can buy renewed Intel Macs for less than $200 and do exactly the same.
- robotresearcher 2y ago...until the battery runs out hours earlier.
- lostlogin 2y agoOr your lap gets hot. Or the fans drive you mad. Good luck with the available ports. Oh, it’s slow AF too, but if you get the right model you can use that stupid Touch Bar.
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- markdown 2y agoWhere can you get Intel Macs for $200?
- alwillis 2y agoI bought an Intel 13-inch MacBook Pro for a friend that I’m working with for $200-$250 from woot.com.
- readyplayernull 2y agoAmazon. Search for "renewed".
- markdown 2y agoThanks. Are these the same as Apple refurbished (as in completely reskinned with a new genuine battery)?
- kalleboo 2y agoMaybe the desktops, but the laptops were always nigh-unusable for my workloads (nothing special, just iOS dev in Xcode). The fans would spin up to jet takeoff status, it would thermal throttle, and performance would nosedive. The M1 Pro was a revelation.
- TylerE 2y agoThere was a really annoying issue with a lot of the intel MacBooks where due to the board design one of the two power sockets would cause them to run quite a bit hotter.
- kalleboo 2y agoYeah I remember that, I posted a YouTube video complaining about it 6 years ago, before I could find any other references to the issue online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rox2IfViJLg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rox2IfViJLg That would cause it to throttle even when idle! But even on battery or using the right-hand ports, under continuous load (edit-build-test cycles) it would quickly throttle.