Absolutely, pro rata it only works out about £20 a month if it lasts anything like as long as my current one has!
FYI, when I was looking last year they were much cheaper in Costco than anywhere else.
Absolutely, pro rata it only works out about £20 a month if it lasts anything like as long as my current one has!
I bought a NOS early 2015 MacBook pro 13” 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 16GB ram 512 SSD Hard drive for £1350 in Feb this year, 2 USB 3 ports, 2 thunderbolt ports, HDMI port, SDXC port etc, very pleased lot lighter than 2010 that it replaced, need a external dvd/cd drive though. Still some in Ebay
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Yes, another £80.00 to plug your iphone into it!
Two things really put me off them though (and the first is true of mine);
Lack of storage ~ Apple trying to force you to use the Cloud. I refuse to so end up with external drives; outrageous IMO on such an expensive bit of kit but hey, that's Apple for you
Price ~ With Apples's current pricing structure and the shit exchange rates new Macbook's are stoooooopid money.
Andres
Andres, why not just fit a large SSD in place of the HDD in your Pro? They are very cheap now. A couple of hours wait to clone your existing drive across and a few screws and its done.
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Andres, why not just fit a large SSD in place of the HDD in your Pro? They are very cheap now. A couple of hours wait to clone your existing drive across and a few screws and its done.
I use a network attached drive (Synology Diskstation) as my own personal cloud storage and backup with a couple of 2Tb drives in it.
I upped the ram and ssd relatively cheaply in my early 2011 model 15" MBP and its so fast I don't see any need to upgrade, although its about to get its third battery this week.
I upgraded from the Air to the Pro with the bar.
Do you need it? No.
Is it cool to use? Yep.
You pays your money.
You cannot do so in the lastest Macbook pro. It is dedicated SSD. Nothing else fits. Very fast, but small.Andres, why not just fit a large SSD in place of the HDD in your Pro? They are very cheap now. A couple of hours wait to clone your existing drive across and a few screws and its done.
I use a network attached drive (Synology Diskstation) as my own personal cloud storage and backup with a couple of 2Tb drives in it.
I upped the ram and ssd relatively cheaply in my early 2011 model 15" MBP and its so fast I don't see any need to upgrade, although its about to get its third battery this week.
No, it's more than that. It's about Apple renting you storage space, and also the security aspects of the whole cloud thing. I refuse, point blank to use the cloud, and do you trust the Merkin or for that matter any other Government? No matter what promises are made, if they need to, they change the rules so that they are later found to be worthless.In these days of cloud storage and being pretty much always connected, is a small SSD/hard drive an issue?
I'm on my 2014 Air with a 250gb SSD, do some video editing, much photo processing and various normal work and home use stuff - and don't have a storage issue. I thought the days of storing anything locally are long gone. I'd feel extremely nervous relying on my laptop SSD or a remote drive in the house. I have no fear about losing my laptop.
I pay just under £1 p.m. for 250gb Google storage. When I need to watch TV/videos on a plane or download a video for editing, plenty of room on the hard drive and I get rid of it to the cloud asap.
Is it just me, or are you lot a bunch of technical computing gods needing shit loads of computing power/storage?
Re the retina screens.
My 2015 MBP has already had one screen replaced due to the screen coating delaminating.
One year on from replacment and the replacment screen is now delaminating nicely. My Apple care runs out in May 2018 so I will get the screen replaced just before then.
It's a very well known problem....Google 'Apple Staingate'.
Apple fixed mine no problem but (as said) the replacment has lasted a year. I wouldn't buy another MBP with a retina screen.
Fuck , I hadn't realised how widespread that was. I mentioned it at the rugby club tonight and pretty much every macbook user has complained that they suffered this!
Yes, whilst I too am an "Apple fanboy" (!!), my Macbook Pro is now on to its thirm retina screen