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The reverse of a question I asked on here a while ago.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)

My MacBook air... Apple bad and all, but the battery life and (CPU) performance meet the claims...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Same with my early-2015 model MacBook Pro. My only Apple product. It just works, what can I say. I'm basically waiting for a reason to switch to the Framework laptop but we'll see. I might eventually just get another MacBook. I gifted my SO a MacBook air around the same time I bought mine and she has had zero issues with that as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I got this M3 air earlier this year... It's also my only apple product and so far it's been great. 0 driver issues, 0 slowdown, 0 screwing around. It just works...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I had the same 2015 MBP, and honestly the only reason I sold it was because I was gifted an M2 Air. For the £400 I paid for it, it’s an incredible laptop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The one apple product I'm willing to buy.

I feel like other brands have closed the gap but there was a time where macbooks seemed like the only great laptop on the market.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

IMO:

Early 2000 -> 2014 - MacBooks are great

2014 -> 2016 - MacBooks are decent

2016 -> Last Intel Models - MacBooks are bad

M1 -> Present - MacBooks are great

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Currently using my 2011 MacBook Pro! It’s got 16GB of RAM and I’ve replaced the optical drive with a SSD, but it still browses the web and handles sorting and browsing and editing 80k photos!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I put Linux Mint on mine. It’s like a brand new laptop. Incredible hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ugh I would LOVE that, but I need OSX for iPhoto, it’s so amazing for organizing a million photos…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not the 8GB RAM model tho, too low for 2020...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Mine's an 8GB. At least for my use case (web development/design) it's plenty...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, Apple have become a steaming tower of shitheads, but fuck me, their hardware is (generally) incredibly well built.

I have a 2011 13” MacBook Pro that I bumped up to 16gb RAM, and replaced the DVD drive with a second hard drive. I had it running Sonoma through OCLP until a few weeks ago when I threw Linux Mint on it. Damn thing won’t die. Same for the 2011 and 2014 Macs mini that I also use regularly. I also have a 15” M2 Air, which is legitimately the best computer I’ve ever owned. I don’t imagine I’ll get the same life out of that, not with macOS at least. Asahi Linux seems to be very, very promising though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

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