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codeslubber
05/14/2018, 4:06 AM@orangy I got a new standing desk a few months ago and put my late 2013 on it and noticed it was not sitting flat. Being an idiot, I immediately thought the new desk was warped, then another light went on: the battery had bulged. Got the whole machine rebuilt for $250. New battery, display, m/b, keyboard.
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Shawn
05/14/2018, 4:11 AMWhere’d you have this done? Might come in handy in a few years if anything happens to my mid-2015
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codeslubber
05/14/2018, 4:12 AMApple. Before I noticed mine bulged I had read a lot of threads. Some people got their batteries replaced for free. Getting the whole machine replaced for $250 was great by me though.
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Shawn
05/14/2018, 4:12 AMahh interesting, I’m surprised $250 was all they asked, but maybe that’s because of the battery thing
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codeslubber
05/14/2018, 4:13 AMTrying to hang on do not want to spend $3K on one of the current MBPs. Maybe when the CoffeeLakes finally drop.
codeslubber
05/14/2018, 4:14 AMOh yeah for sure, going in the Genius Bar guy told me to expect $500 and offered no explanation, of course I did not ask for one. I frankly don't think we need 32 GBs. But I also have a latest MBP (corporate issue for a project I am doing) that is fully loaded, and seriously, it does not feel any faster than my 2013, which is PATHETIC.. 🙂
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Shawn
05/14/2018, 4:15 AMeh, maybe? I think I’ll probably hold out until USB-C actually becomes commonplace or something, idk. I really like the machine I have right now, and honestly the only things I’d want from the new MBPs are the new screens, x-large touchpad, and fingerprint reader
Shawn
05/14/2018, 4:15 AMeverything else seems like a practical downgrade lol
Shawn
05/14/2018, 4:15 AMaside from I guess the space gray coloring, that’s not half bad
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codeslubber
05/14/2018, 4:16 AMamen, I would like the fingerprint reader.. it is kind of stupid that I want that given that A has put a bullet in its head for phones going forward..
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Shawn
05/14/2018, 4:17 AMahhh I’m not personally 100% sure what Apple’s going to do with TouchID in the future. It’s not, like, unthinkable that they might bring it back if they can figure out how to put a secure reader under the glass
Shawn
05/14/2018, 4:18 AMbeing able to offer Touch ID and Face ID in tandem would be a pretty decent selling point, imho
Shawn
05/14/2018, 4:19 AMnot that I’d set my own iPhone up like that if I had the opportunity - Touch ID only works fine for me, and is a lot more convenient in situations like paying for groceries or unlocking my phone for like my SO or whoever’s in the passenger’s seat while I’m driving
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codeslubber
05/14/2018, 4:22 AMI read that the new phones will all be FaceID but that could turn out to be wrong..
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Shawn
05/14/2018, 4:23 AMWe’ll see I suppose, Apple’s surprised us before
Shawn
05/14/2018, 4:25 AMalso wrt your work machine, I’m rather surprised that it doesn’t feel any faster considering how ridiculously fast the new NVMe SSDs are, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some quirk in something like their FDE solution or the slightly slower CPU package they’re using that negates the effect
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codeslubber
05/14/2018, 4:27 AMinteresting.. yeah maybe for really data-intensive things it is much faster and I am just not noticing..
codeslubber
05/14/2018, 4:29 AMthe main thing I care about on a dev machine is how long it takes for tests to run
codeslubber
05/14/2018, 4:29 AMand better tools is the best solution to that problem and they are getting better..
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orangy
05/14/2018, 5:52 AM
I’ve got screen replacement for free a year ago, but now battery comes. Fortunately, our admins can replace batteries, and it costs about $50 to buy one.
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cedric
05/14/2018, 2:52 PMI got a Windows laptop for my personal development machine, couldn't be happier.
cedric
05/14/2018, 2:53 PMIt's a beast, fairly light, with a keypad (my laptops have to have keypads), large bright 15', probably around half a MBP would have cost
cedric
05/14/2018, 2:53 PMAnd of course... video games 😄
cedric
05/14/2018, 2:54 PMAlso don't need to carry with me half a dozen of connector adapters.
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Shawn
05/14/2018, 3:10 PM@cedric I think you might’ve replied to the wrong thread
Shawn
05/14/2018, 3:11 PMunless you popped into a discussion between two mac owners just to proselytize about your windows machine… lol
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codeslubber
05/14/2018, 5:45 PMI am almost there @cedric, I for sure am not buying the current MBP, if mine goes tits up I will buy a used one probably..
codeslubber
05/14/2018, 5:46 PMthere are a lot of choices now for Windows/Linux: Dell, HP, and Acer, Lenovo, etc.
codeslubber
05/14/2018, 5:46 PMthe Mac team is lost in space, putting their likelihood of getting back on track about on par with Tyson after biting holyfield's ear off...
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orangy
05/14/2018, 5:47 PM
We have 16K+ members here, what chance is that there is at least one from Apple somehow close to macBooks department? 😄
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codeslubber
05/14/2018, 5:47 PM@orangy as I said the 2013 is almost as good as the latest machine, so you are not missing much by keeping that thing alive..
codeslubber
05/14/2018, 5:48 PMgood question, I wish they would wake up.. I have had a ton of macbooks and they were great machines, and clearly they revolutionized a lot of things about making machines, but they don't talk to power users at all, that's clear.. they are probably getting their directions belched out of Jony's mouth as he drives around in his bently drinking champagne..
codeslubber
05/14/2018, 5:50 PMI think apple thinks designers are the people who have money to buy a machine and all development has been sloughed off to low wage serfs..
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orangy
05/14/2018, 5:50 PM
May be Chromebooks with IJ running can make a wake-up call…
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Shawn
05/14/2018, 5:51 PMget Xcode running on a Chromebook and you’ll really light a fire under ’em
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orangy
05/14/2018, 5:52 PM
They’ll ban that apps
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codeslubber
05/14/2018, 5:55 PMyeah that would be amazing
codeslubber
05/14/2018, 5:55 PMespecially with the emulator start times they were showing at I/O for sure will buy one even if I still have an MBP..