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it sucks, don't buy one keyboard sucks, touchbar sucks, price sucks, apple is a ding dong
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i regret my purchase of a 2017 macbook pro (actually has escape key, no touch bar) every day i still use it, but i don't like it
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Aug 13, 2019 23:35
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I like my 2017 MBP but I preferred my 2015. Work pays for mine though so 🤷♂️
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Aug 14, 2019 04:36
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like everyone else in here with correct opinions, i'll be holding on to my 2015 13" until sidechannel attack mitigations make osx on intel unusable
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Aug 14, 2019 18:22
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psiox posted:like everyone else in here with correct opinions, i'll be holding on to my 2015 13" until sidechannel attack mitigations make osx on intel unusable what do you think you'll do then
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Aug 16, 2019 16:48
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go on a quest in the post-2024 wasteland to find a new-in-box identical model or maybe a thinkpad running lunix
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Aug 16, 2019 20:34
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after the apocalypse security by obscurity will be key to survival because skynet is running on commodity ARM and x86 hardware http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2018/01/actual-field-testing-of-spectre-on.html Bring it on, I'll be ready  https://www.morphos-team.net/hardware
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Aug 16, 2019 20:42
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morphos is trash, the late g4 is double-trash and was shipping against early core duo stuff (lol) for a time, and those are relatively flimsy laptops powerbook g3 Pismo is where it's at
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Aug 16, 2019 23:06
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wrong g4 powerbook was epic af
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Aug 16, 2019 23:14
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no the aluminum models are pieces of poo poo that are the reason ppc died, the g5 was too hot so they just kept shipping incrementally advanced g4s until loving 2005. the 1.67 especially is hot garbage and the only laptop I can think of where the gpu outpaces the cpu
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Aug 16, 2019 23:17
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pram posted:wrong g4 powerbook was epic af 
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Aug 16, 2019 23:26
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Yeah, the mid 2000's g4's were hot garbage hardware wise, but mac os was actually feeling pretty awesome at that time.
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I had a 12" g4 1.33ghz and it was loving horseshit. I had to send it in twice for repairs after the hard drive died, the fan ran constantly and sounded like it was grinding hamsters, the screen was blotchy and dim, and they even hosed up the anodization somehow so that it developed pits on the wrist rest where my hands went the only good things that happened with that garbage were getting a free battery due to yet another apple safety recall, and selling it to some moron on CL for $600 a week before the Intel transition was formally announced the work mbp I deal with today is terrible at any price, but the powerbook era was another level
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Aug 17, 2019 01:08
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the 12 inch ones were at least unique in the size/speed. Like they had a reason to exist. and it's true yeah MacOS was leagues beyond fuckin' Windows XP past 10.2. Before 10.2 it was a garbage fire and a disaster- but OS9 was still mostly viable in the interrim.
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Aug 17, 2019 01:45
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I had a first-gen c2d mbp and good lord was it garbage too, speaking of sending things in for repairs constantly yeah that time period was Bad For Computers
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Aug 17, 2019 02:27
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'member the cap plague when one (maybe more?) factories in china were shipping fake capacitors 2003-2005ish and they all blew within years, ruining those systems for long term collection? or the switch to lead-free solder that gives G5s a huge amount of problems?
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Aug 17, 2019 02:39
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a friend of mine bought a core solo mac mini
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Aug 17, 2019 04:35
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woulda been great for those 10 months before core 2 was out lol
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Aug 17, 2019 05:04
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oh whew, yeah, those RoHS adjustment years were rough the new macbook pro: it could technically be worse
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SRQ posted:the 12 inch ones were at least unique in the size/speed. Like they had a reason to exist. to sell the thinkpad x series to people who get work done
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Aug 17, 2019 10:18
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my job gave me a touchbar and i hate it more than the keyboard
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Aug 17, 2019 15:25
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psst. the Air still has physical function keys
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Aug 17, 2019 15:56
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I’m still waiting for my boss to purchase the MacBook professional laptop computer. there’s a purchase number and everything!
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SRQ posted:'member the cap plague when one (maybe more?) factories in china were shipping fake capacitors 2003-2005ish and they all blew within years, ruining those systems for long term collection? or the switch to lead-free solder that gives G5s a huge amount of problems? Lol. I worked IT helpdesk at a university at the peak of that. Dell Optiplex GX270s had a failure rate in the field of approximately 100% because of those caps. We used to have stacks and stacks of them waiting for the dell guy to show up and swap motherboards.
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Aug 20, 2019 19:24
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if i told you to buy me the best laptop and you came back with a macbook you'd be in the loving unemployment line
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evilweasel posted:if i told you to buy me the best laptop and you came back with a macbook you'd be in the loving unemployment line you're a bad person and should feel bad
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SRQ posted:you're a bad person and should feel bad better a bad person with a good laptop than a good person with a modern macbook
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Aug 20, 2019 20:28
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you didn't say modern tho. the correct response to your quest is the 15 inch 2015
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Aug 20, 2019 20:32
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SRQ posted:you didn't say modern tho. the original post demanded a "brand new" laptop so it was implied in the specification
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I remember messing around with the first MacBook Pro and it definitely had the mooing problem and would occasionally kernel panic as well.
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hot take: don't buy a laptop, for they are portable distraction engines. Every dollar spent towards a laptop can be instead spent towards a desktop that is more powerful and will last longer/be more reliable since you're not dropping it and when you spill a liter of cola you're out maybe $50 for a new keyboard
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Oct 14, 2019 06:50
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and how do i work on papers in the library then, an ipad? gently caress no
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Jonny 290 posted:a friend of mine bought a core solo mac mini was it this one or the first core2 one that had a socketed cpu that you could swap for a core2 quad?
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SRQ posted:and how do i work on papers in the library then, an ipad? gently caress no 
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imagine tripping with that on
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BONGHITZ posted:imagine tripping with that on you'd probably fall
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