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Ok, so you make her live in Louisiana, shouldn't you buy the awesome gal a new one?
I bought my wife a MagSafe adapter for the usb c cord the MacBooks have now . It was $30-40 and by griffin. Her old MacBook was saved a few times from falling because of the old plug
Thanks. If that's an option maybe that's the way to go.
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AhrnCityPahnder said:
Yea, this is where I am at too. A chromebook is sufficient and awesome for probably 90% of what people use computers for and they cost nothing these days.
She'll mostly edit photos. And thanks - I appreciate the link.AhrnCityPahnder said:
I considered chrome books, but don't those have little to no storage? With editing photos, she needs space on a real hard drive, I think.
No, I mean she takes photographs of nature, cemeteries, and fading/decrepit Louisiana towns and sells them after whatever she does with photoshop.
Surface Pro or iPad Pro are great for editing photos. We have the iPad Pro because we are applecentric but I've wanted to buy a surface to play around with. The pen
Meh. I think there was a case to be made for this a decade ago, not anymore though.
IDK, it seems most every tech site you read online still says for the money, they are
Refurbished MacBook with SSD running lightroom or photoshop. Don't listen to your buddy.
Is this just an estimate? or is there some util out there that gives you drive/battery device hours? I know about "uptime" and I know about the battery cycle count, but I've never seen this as a metric before.
Estimate. Daily use 8-5 machine for 4 years plus estimated after hours and weekend use. No concrete metric, but the point is the machine has outlasted anything else I've ever owned by orders of magnitude and I have a hard time seeing why I can't keep it going another several years or more.
I love this machine.
I have a first gen aluminum MacBook , 2007 or 2008 , still runs but can't handle anything but minor tasks now
Macbooks are durable as ####. Not only do they have smart #### like the magsafe power adapter, but they're built like tanks. My 8 year old MacBook Pro's aluminum case is dinged very visibly in multiple places from hard hits / falls and the damn thing just keeps on trucking. I've changed out HD, trackpad, and battery... but otherwise it's got 12,000+ hours of use on it and it runs like new.
I've got a mid2008 MBP that was on it's deathbed about 3 years ago -- I decided to roll the dice and throw an SSD, new RAM and a new battery in it. $200 later and that thing is still chugging right along today. It's not as quick as it used to be, and it runs at about 700 degrees sometimes -- but the thing just won't die.Estimate. Daily use 8-5 machine for 4 years plus estimated after hours and weekend use. No concrete metric, but the point is the machine has outlasted anything else I've ever owned by orders of magnitude and I have a hard time seeing why I can't keep it going another several years or more.
Take any money you can get for it and run. The PowerPC CPUs in the old Macs (Pre-Intel adoption)will still run OS X 10.5 (Leopard -- released in late 2007) but will not run 10.6 (Snow Leopard -- released mid 2009 ) or anything since.
Yep! SSD, Battery and RAM turned mine into a different machine entirely as well.
This machine has me sold on Mac laptops for life, or until I'm someone shown that they no longer make the best damn machines on the market.
If you have issues with thing breaking, and you buy something directly from Apple, I'd look into getting AppleCare. Very nice extended warranty type program from Apple. We had it for our iMac, and it was very handy for service as well as just plain calling to get help.Wrigley said:
I have had an Air that has been mainly used by my kids (now some in the early teens) for what will be 2 years this summer. We have had no problems with it being 'flimsy.'
