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I like how you start off by saying "My first Macbook Pro", which implies you have purchased more since this initial issue?

• mullingitover 14y ago
  What can I say? They're the worst laptops, except for all the others. Seriously though, the second one has been a champion and I've used it for four years straight without a hiccup. It's a wash--I don't recommend Apple hardware for everyone, but I still prefer it myself.
  • kamjam 14y ago
    Wow. I would have dumped it and never used them again. I was having a bit of a "debate" with a friend of mine who bought the new MBP a few months ago. We are both C# developers so we have no real use of the Mac features, and he was running Windows 8 in VM. His laptop cost over 3 times more than my Dell XPS, which granted is thicker and the screen is not as high res etc, all features which I did not care about to be honest. His argument was that Mac had very good hardware and would last several years. Sure, but in that same time period if my laptop broke, I could afford to buy another 2 more and still be even... MBP is a bloody nice piece of kit though! :)
    • mullingitover 14y ago
      Here's what make the cost easy for me to deal with: resale value. A two year old Mac will easily fetch 75% of its retail price. Paying 25% of retail price for two years of use is pretty reasonable.
      • kamjam 14y ago
        That's true. I just can't justify the high price when I won't use the features, especially since by that stage things in my possession are pretty broken :-p