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I have the first 13 Macbook Alumium, upgraded with SSD and 8gb of ram and sometimes I'd like to upgrade to something newer but the thing is still working perfec

I have the first 13 Macbook Alumium, upgraded with SSD and 8gb of ram and sometimes I'd like to upgrade to something newer but the thing is still working perfectly. No crashes, no melting, no anything, simply indestructible. When I will have to switch, it'll be a sad day.

tluyben2 13y ago
I have that one as well and it's unbreakable indeed. I have also 8gb and SSD and the thing is rocksolid. However, it's too slow when i'm working with Xcode, Eclipse, Chrome and high performance apps. So I bought a 15 inch i7 to go with it. Horrible machine; crashes, feels(!) slower for normal work than the 13 inch one, has a broken magsafe internal (I soldered the wires to the board otherwise it wouldn't load anymore; one day i'll pick up a new magsafe from ebay but I still don't like the price of the real verified ones) just after the warranty. Recently the 'asd' keys just stopped working (no moist or anything, just stopped working). The machine makes it capable of doing intensive eclipse + xcode + simulator work on it while the 13 inch doesn't, but when doing anything else, i'm working on my trusted 13 inch macbook (which is much older). I hope they will make the next line as robust as that one.
- ericd 13y ago
  I have a 2011 15in i7, it's been rock solid, are you sure you didn't just get a lemon? You should take it in...
  - tluyben2 13y ago
    Yeah it could be, but it's too old now... I should've taken the 3 year warranty, but as I said; my previous experiences (were I did have 3 years warranty) I didn't need it so I didn't take it for this either. That bit me badly...
AlexanderDhoore 13y ago
This is why I recommend my friends and family to buy macbooks. Not because of OS X, especially not because they are "faster" (CPU, HDD, GPU are quite slow for it's price), nor for the "pretty" factor. I do it because they are very, very reliable machines. What good is a 1500 euro HP with massive amounts of GPU power, when the battery sucks, the audio jack is broken, the screen won't stand up and some keys are loose...

tluyben2 13y ago

I have that one as well and it's unbreakable indeed. I have also 8gb and SSD and the thing is rocksolid. However, it's too slow when i'm working with Xcode, Eclipse, Chrome and high performance apps. So I bought a 15 inch i7 to go with it. Horrible machine; crashes, feels(!) slower for normal work than the 13 inch one, has a broken magsafe internal (I soldered the wires to the board otherwise it wouldn't load anymore; one day i'll pick up a new magsafe from ebay but I still don't like the price of the real verified ones) just after the warranty. Recently the 'asd' keys just stopped working (no moist or anything, just stopped working). The machine makes it capable of doing intensive eclipse + xcode + simulator work on it while the 13 inch doesn't, but when doing anything else, i'm working on my trusted 13 inch macbook (which is much older). I hope they will make the next line as robust as that one.

ericd 13y ago
I have a 2011 15in i7, it's been rock solid, are you sure you didn't just get a lemon? You should take it in...
- tluyben2 13y ago
  Yeah it could be, but it's too old now... I should've taken the 3 year warranty, but as I said; my previous experiences (were I did have 3 years warranty) I didn't need it so I didn't take it for this either. That bit me badly...

AlexanderDhoore 13y ago

This is why I recommend my friends and family to buy macbooks. Not because of OS X, especially not because they are "faster" (CPU, HDD, GPU are quite slow for it's price), nor for the "pretty" factor. I do it because they are very, very reliable machines. What good is a 1500 euro HP with massive amounts of GPU power, when the battery sucks, the audio jack is broken, the screen won't stand up and some keys are loose...