My mid-2014 15" MBpro has come down with swollen battery syndrome. I took it to Apple and they first said that they would repair it ($200, 3-5 days) all good and then I got a message that the technician (snowflake?) had found tobacco smoke residue inside and would not work on it! Lengthy discussion went no where - all I heard was about their policy (cannot find it in writing anywhere)
Been looking at Craig's list well specked (early)2019s - cheap - because of the keyboard issue? I'm debating going to a DIY battery replacement (I have the skills) or going for a 2019.
Considerations: Parallels is important to me - I run 3 legacy windows programs under XP SP3 I have learned, by trial and error with my 2015 MB Air, running OS 11.1, that Parallels 16 will run XP3 (their website is a little vague on that) and my old Windows programs, Quicken 2004, Office 2003 and Dragon Naturally Speaking ?? will mount and run so I'm OK with a newer machine -
Machine issues - Don't care about the touchpad, use only a mouse - keyboard use is moderate - my hands are severely impaired - any lengthy text is done by dictation probably the most intense keyboard use is the daily WSJ crossword puzzle.
Thoughts from any 2019 owners out there? anyone else?
Thanks
Been looking at Craig's list well specked (early)2019s - cheap - because of the keyboard issue? I'm debating going to a DIY battery replacement (I have the skills) or going for a 2019.
Considerations: Parallels is important to me - I run 3 legacy windows programs under XP SP3 I have learned, by trial and error with my 2015 MB Air, running OS 11.1, that Parallels 16 will run XP3 (their website is a little vague on that) and my old Windows programs, Quicken 2004, Office 2003 and Dragon Naturally Speaking ?? will mount and run so I'm OK with a newer machine -
Machine issues - Don't care about the touchpad, use only a mouse - keyboard use is moderate - my hands are severely impaired - any lengthy text is done by dictation probably the most intense keyboard use is the daily WSJ crossword puzzle.
Thoughts from any 2019 owners out there? anyone else?
Thanks