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Man, if Linux actually runs on Macbooks without problems I’ll probably get one as my next laptop. I’m getting tired of loud fans and poor battery life on all these x86 laptops.

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Flashback to 2008 when I wanted a portable PC to play TF2 and WoW and LAN parties. I looked around and all gaming laptops were like 18lbs, had 1.5 hour battery life, and were insanely loud.

Bought a 15” MacBook Pro. Installed Windows on it. Tiny, 5lb machine that’s almost always silent. Dedicated GPU. Better processor than any PC laptop.

Only problem was, it was like 2k moneys.

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2 points

I think I have your old computer

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Hahaha I wish! It had accident protection and had an… unfortunate… sticky… sugar… accident a month before the protection was up.

Got me upgraded to an early 2011 MBP that I still use and love (with 16GB RAM and a SSD, of course.)

These shits last forever. Just wish I could upgrade it past High Sierra. Or figure out an easy way to back up my 160GB of photos. Love this laptop but the lil shit has USB2.

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25 points

It sucks that apple solder everything on their laptops. I want to get one.

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Yeah. We can only hope that one day Framework will give us the blessing of an ARM-based laptop with foss firmware.

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That’s a dream. I’d get one for sure

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8 points

Even before their repairability score from iFixit sucked big time! :/

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Yup. I just can’t buy a machine that has nothing repairable/replaceable on it.

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Apple does some things really well, but it’s not worth it to risk that much money on an unrepairable machine that’s known to just die randomly.

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It’s attractive if you already have an Apple product lying around. Otherwise I’d just avoid that brand or get a second hand one…

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M powered iPads too!?

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I doubt it - the bootloader is very different on iPads and I don’t think it would let you boot a different OS

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Cool

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