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> Cannot be opened or tweaked with Unlike a many-year-old thinkpad, Macbooks generally dont have problems requiring you to open them and fiddle. As with alot o
by PebblesHD 11y ago
> Cannot be opened or tweaked with
Unlike a many-year-old thinkpad, Macbooks generally dont have problems requiring you to open them and fiddle. As with alot of Ultrabook style machines, everything's soldered down meaning you get a thinner, lighter product, even the new thinkpads. Granted upgradinng RAM is a bit tricky now, but 8GB base isnt too bad.
EDIT: pre-empting the reply, I use both a T61 and a Macbook and they're both useful in their own ways.
- ekianjo 11y agoThinkpads (at least older ones, I don't use the most recent series) are very reliable in my experience. They age but breaking them is almost unheard of. > As with alot of Ultrabook style machines That's the problem I have with Macs - trying to be thinner for the sake of being thin. We're past the stage where most laptops were bulky and very heavy. I'd rather have one that's a little thicker, has several extension ports, and can be tweaked with (hence a Thinkpad works for me).
- Zak 11y agoI've had to open up a number of Apple laptops for friends over the years. It does seem to me that the newer ones have increased in reliability a bit, but not to the point that I don't have to take a screwdriver to one semi-regularly. The only thing significantly reducing the frequency of such repairs is that some of them have become impossible. I own a T61/T60P hybrid I built myself. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I need more than 8gb of RAM. I haven't had a problem with this hardware since the HDD died and got replaced with an SSD.