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Posted by: Blaster73
Posted by: Leafie
They are overpriced...but I honestly think that their lifespan helps balance the cost.
I mean I'm using a 4(almost 5) year old Macbook and, besides the small HDD, it still feels only a year old.
The software still updates great. It's still in great physical condition(aluminum body ftw!). Hell, I can actually run games still, and it's still fast.
In the same time span I've had this laptop, my mom's gone through 3. Granted one of them was cheap, but they've all had their problems. Crashing, slowing down, one broke when she dropped it(I know...that's kind of unfair, but the unibody is pretty great at handling falls).
I think the key for me is I never buy current model macbooks.
I buy new/used versions of the older models once they go EOL. Price drops pretty quickly and there's no difference. Right now the only reason I didn't get a laptop this year(before the diving gear costs came up), was because I was waiting for some more time for the 2011 macbook series to get a bit older.
Example of a Macbook I'd buy.
Solid memory, decent enough HDD(I'd probably try to look for more though), and all it has is a dent.
For that price you could get a gaming laptop that would run most games out today. I still think that macs just aren't good hardware or software. How long yours has lasted is because of you, not the laptop.
haha I don't know about that...
I tend to do a lot of...uh...test stuff with my laptop...
Ex: I did a LOT of playing around in Single User Mode on this laptop...may have done quite a few things that I forgot about...