On: The Decline of the MacBook Pro

[megaman22]

It's insane that they don't support a 17" option still. Those machines were beasts. If I could have afforded to spend twice the money on a laptop at the time, I would have gotten one - I still probably should have with the number of HPs and Dells and Asuss I've gone through since.

[brightball → megaman22]

A friend of my just replaced his motherboard to keep it going. My laptop is my 3rd screen...not having a 17" is not at option as far as I'm concerned.

[noir_lord → brightball]

I went from a 17" Dell (1600x900) to a 14" Thinkpad (2560x1440) - It mattered a lot less than I expected and the hidpi is lovely.

[brightball → noir_lord]

The screen size wasn't the only motivation. I like my laptop to be a portable server. This thing has 3 HD (2 NVMe & 1 SSD), up to 64GB / ram, 4 USB 3.0 ports, 1 USB-C, 1 Mini-Display/Thunderbolt, 1 HDMI, SD card slot, ethernet port, finger print scanner and a smart card slot.

Plus the battery is replaceable.

I love my beast of a laptop with all the interchangeable parts.

[noir_lord → brightball]

I understand that, I went with a T470P which is an absurdly powerful little machine, i7-7700HQ, 32GB RAM, NVMe storage, no thunderbolt but I had no need for it also has HDMI, DisplayPort, Ethernet port, Fingerprint reader.

Happy with it for what I paid (lot of machine for the money).

[vardump → brightball]

Does it have ECC RAM? If it does, then that system sounds very tempting. I wouldn't dare to use it for work without ECC.