I am hoping that someone or several someones who work on MPB's can steer me straight. My impression of Apple is that in order to rush stuff to market they use the public to test products and just send them to the Apple store and weed out glitches cheaper and faster than a devoted team of far less people would. I would not have an issue with this if they would kindly put one Apple store in the entire country of Belize. When a Mac goes bad here you just buy another because shipping it back and forth with the wait is not reasonable. I have been through 10-11mbp's in 19 years. I have bought them new and used, my last new one worked great for3 years, a record until gf spilled a drink on the keyboard. Catalina OS best ever. Since then I have had 2 cheap older one because I take the hard drives out of them when they fail, they plug right into my Seagate External. But that one had the hard drive fused to motherboard, lost 3 years of photos. So can any of you techs tell me which way to jump? There must be an ideal everything, the best components and try to find them in one used unit with SSD removable. Before you tell me about I cloud they managed to lose some files, I use my own externals except for the Catalina. So in a nutshell kindly tell me what to look for and features like memory that are important. Are new solid state boards, 2024-25 worth the extra money? Thank you kindly from Belize 
