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Daily reminder that the Mid-2012 non-Retina Macbook Pros are the last good Macbooks Apple made. The Retina models all cuck you out of upgradeability and ease of maintenance, are far less affordable compared to a maxed out non-Retina for relatively small performance gains, and are more prone to throttling and overheating.
>>54318387
>upgradeability
8/256gb are plenty for a mobile device.
>ease of maintenance
Which you rarely need if at all.
>far less affordable
Try having a job.
> performance gains
Almost any laptop from 2012 on has enough performance, who cares about that. Better screen and battery life make rMBP a no brainer.
>>54318387
I would agree, shame they're fucking $800 second hand here and like $1600 new.
>>54318387
>more prone to throttling and overheating.
Retinas have much better cooling, nice try.
>>54318387
>last good Macbooks Apple made
>Apple made
Its still an Apple product so its garbage.
>>54318488
Depends on where you look. I got a like-new used 13" MBP, box and all, for $600. Added a 240GB SSD and 16GB RAM for around $150 extra. Would have loved the i7 variant, but this is more than enough for average shitposting and compiling shit on Linux.
>>54318662
Should have mentioned, "here" for me is Australia. Forgot I wasn't on /pol/.
>>54318518
not to mention their utter shit hitachi hard drives going out after just a few months
>daily reminder that Snow Leopard is the Windows 7 of OSX
I have one and the screen is trash for anything >Mavericks
Whether on purpose or not, with BOTH of their new fonts, Helvetica and San Francisco it causes eye strain because they are so thin there are jaggies all over the place and they reduced the overall font size and contrast. It got slightly better with San Francisco but it's still shit. Fucking windows with boot camp has better readability now.
This is exactly the reason I'm upgrading to a retina MBP and I wouldn't recommend anyone getting the non retina ones unless you a) don't use OSX or b) downgrade to Mavericks
>>54319326
You know there's an app that changes the font back to Lucida Grande, right?
>>54319379
Yeah, but...
>>54318387
you're preaching the truth
>>54318444
you're an idiot, the battery is constantly degrading and cannot be user replaced on the rMBP.
Daily reminder that Intel-based laptops before 2009 are the greatest ones ever made, as they use a processor with freedom of control.
>>54319412
Safari is mostly where issues crop up, and it only really happens when you exceed 5 tabs or so.
>>54319643
Well, considering Safari is the fastest option that's gonna be a problem.
>>54318387
>the last good Macbooks Apple made
That would require having made a good one first.
>>54318444
trips cant lie. im becoming a macfag now
>>54319415
why does it need to be user replaced when apple will do it for free?
