Comment on Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 1 year agoThe thing about used macbooks is that you don’t know if the drive is trashed. If the SSD dies, it will take the whole machine down, and you can’t even boot with an external drive because the “Bios” is stored on the SSD. So the machine is bricked.
ianovic69@feddit.uk 1 year ago
If it was trashed, and I don’t see why it would be, how long would it take to become apparent?
A year’s guarantee from a refurb company would cover that? And my backup just goes into the replacement. I don’t really see a problem but I’m happy to be educated.
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It could be a year or two until failing, who knows. People that do heavy video and audio edits tend to wear those drives faster than everyone else due to the high number of reads and writes. Also, how many times can you swap the machine under warranty? And how many years do you intend to keep yours? A repair out of warranty may be the cost of a new machine, and those are really expensive, not to mention the downtime you’ll have to get the swap done.
Mine, a top of line Dell notebook with 32Gb of RAM and 2Tb SSD, lasted about ten years of heavy audio and video work, with a quick and cheap SSD swap in between to keep it going. Easy repairs and little downtime is pretty important to me, but that’s just me.
Those are just factors that I think should be considered, and I saw a bunch of colleagues that did not thought about it, and sailed through rough spots waiting their machines to be fixed. It may be your case, or may be not.
ianovic69@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Overall that’s fair. I’m not a heavy user and it’s not my living. The warranty is probably for one swap but it’s lapsed now. If it was going to break it would have by now but I have other options and they run to about 5 years.
I used windows for years for audio and it was always a pain. Having said I would never buy Apple anything, I finally got to try it and the difference is night and day.
That’s just my experience but if I was doing this professionally as my main source of income, any hardware issues would be fully covered. It wouldn’t make sense otherwise. I’d use the best tools for the job and for me that’s Apple.
I do think it’s worth considering the points you’ve made if you’re in that position. My points were not aimed at those people, just at those in a similar position to mine. The discussion though, is always useful for the observers, so I think we’ve done ok there.
Happy Xmas!
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Agreed, seems like your use case is different than mine. Thanks for the reply, merry Christmas!