Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Ask Slashdot: Best Laptops For Fans Of Pre-Retina MacBook Pro?

Posted by timothy on from the daddy-what-were-batteries? dept.

stigmato writes "Once upon a time the MacBook Pro line was well-regarded amongst IT professionals for their quality, performance, serviceability & upgradeability. As appealing as the new Retina displays are, I don't want a device I cannot upgrade or repair. Glued in batteries and soldered in RAM with high prices have made me look to other manufacturers again. What are you buying, /. community? System76? Dell? Old article but still rings true with the latest models. I post this from my 2010 MBP 13" with a 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD in the optical bay, 8GB (possibly 16GB soon) and a user replaced battery."

3 of 477 comments (clear)

  1. Worst MacBook EVER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bought a MacBook air a year ago. The first one exploded to blew my hand off. The next one killed my dog. It wouldn't run DR-DOS at all. The wifi screwed up and sterilized my nuts.

    Overall I was left with a really bad feeling about all Apple products, which obviously must all have similar defects. Anecdotes by unverifiable semi-anonymous internet posters prove that to be true.

    1. Re:Worst MacBook EVER by yurtinus · · Score: 1, Funny

      But you got a new one this year, because despite those flaws they are just so *cool*!!!

      --
      +1 Disagree
  2. Re:Lenovo. by jellomizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    No a Chrome pixel is 1x1. Duh!

    --
    If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.