7 Oct
2011
7 Oct
'11
5:02 p.m.
On 07/10/11 7:08 AM, Ray Arachelian wrote:
...
Batteries are the very first things to die in a notebook (unless you
spill liquids in them, or drop them), then hard drives, then the
backlights slowly dim over time for the CF models. (Not sure if the LED
Over a _long_ time, though (5+ years has not impacted the usability of
my Powerbooks much, and my wife's Macbook is fine after 4 years).
ones will dim over time.) Optical drives seem to go
after a few years
too, so when the notebook's at home, I connect to an external USB one.
This push towards the replace your machine when the battery wears out
for notebooks does not win my loyalty. It's even worse for things like
ipods, iphones, and ipads. It's more like you're renting them and
paying for the year than buying them.
It's even worse. They don't want you to wait until the battery dies! The
game seems to shrink the replacement cycle ever shorter. Do people keep
their devices for more than six months these days?! What an insane,
unsustainable foolishness.
And don't get me started on the
locked-in "store" stuff. ...
I recently wanted a desktop computer, so I built a
nice Hackintosh
instead of buying a macpro. The highest end MacPro at the time cost 2x
as much and only offered a 2.3GHz quad CPU.
In April I paid $1800 for an 8 core 3GHz Xeon Mac Pro (used, good
condition), with drives and 8GB.
--Toby
The one I built has a
3.4GHz CPU, so it was a no-brainer....