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I think you're right, although I would say 2012 was still a good year for devs, given Snow Leopard and the Macs they released then (my 2012 is the last with all the ports and a DVD drive, for example). It was before the iOS features were heavily pushed to OSX. I think it is very sad but I too am considering migration of my life to a ThinkPad after this MacBook dies. That'll be a really sad time for me because I don't fully understand Microsoft's vision for the future, and certainly don't want to go back to Linux (I grew tired of everything breaking all the time and incessant change for no reason).

Out of interest, what ThinkPad are you looking at?




>> (my 2012 is the last with all the ports and a DVD drive, for example)

Don't forget that you can replace the RAM and HDD with commodity parts. And you can also remove the DVD drive, drop in a cage and stick another sata drive in there too.


I did indeed upgrade the RAM to 16GB. It is the top i7 model, so has the Intel and nvidia GPU for graphics switching.d I am looking to upgrade the 750GB to a 1TB SSD as the only thing holding it back is the very slow disk bottleneck. Having said that, it is a very capable machine and covers all my needs (I record my band's gigs using the FireWire interface and an external audio interface, and can burn the recordings to CD for my computer-shy drummer, who is in his 50s), and it makes a good dev machine with OSX and Windows 10 on bootcamp (and in parallels when under OSX). Although the only sore point about it is the resolution, I cannot see an equivalent or replacement machine in Apple's current offerings, which says an awful lot I feel.


I went with the P50, as connectivity options were more important to me than weight or thickness.

Agreed that the Snow Leopard era was a high point.


Agreed. Snow Leopard was the pinnacle of OS X for me. I grow less and less interested in each subsequent version.




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