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How often do you college students replace a Macbook Pro?

Bought my 2010 White MacBook in Nov '10. Had to send it back once because the fans were spinning at high speeds continuously. Luckily the Apple Rep I was talking to on the phone tried their hardest to get my MB fixed under warranty. I only had a month left. Since then my MB has been working fine. Battery is at 87% so I'm guessing I have a few years left with that. I might send it in to get the cracks fixed but other than that I don't plan on getting a new MB anytime soon... Unless I have a well paying job, and I NEED to upgrade, which at the moment I don't. I have two years left of Undergrad (Hopefully), and I'll be using my MB and a netbook for these last years.
 
I got my Late 2008 Unibody Macbook in 8th grade. I got the higher end one so it was basically the same as the first 13 inch MBP. And I just ordered an Air for the start of college, which I plan to keep all four years before buying another laptop.

Half-crossing my fingers for a new MBP before the 13 day return window ends.
 
well im just out of college so i guess it can apply.
2007 macbook 13
early 2009 mac mini
late 2009 white unibody macbook 13
late 2011 macbook pro 13
early 2011 macbook pro 17
early 2013 rMBP 15
mid 2012 mac pro

Fortunately ive always got good value for my laptops from relatives or friends.
I still have my late 2009 unibody , 17inch and mac pro. The mac mini acts as a dust magnet these days.
the 2007 has a bad logic board so it just lies around when bored i dismantle and assemble just for the heck of it.
 
Got an iMac in 2007
MacBook Air in late 2010/early 2011
And now a Haswell MacBook Pro in late 2013

So, every 3 years, give or take.
 
Daughter just bought a 13" Macbook Pro. It will see her through her last year and a half of college.
Some will wonder why she didn't wait for the update but she simply got tired of waiting. She went with the 8GB, 750 GB, DVD no retina model.
This suits her needs best at this moment. She will be running OSX and Windows and some of her textbooks only provide CD/DVDs instead of download of tutorials.

It's still better and faster than the Windows laptop she had.

After she graduates she can buy whatever she wants. She is pulling in over $5K a month as a summer intern. She will have a Master's when she graduates.

Maybe I'll talk her into giving me her old MBP.
 
DrJames said:
Hi There,

I'm a college student and I was wondering how often some of you college students or HS students replace your MacBook/MBP.

I bought the current version cMBP that Apple still has on their website with a few upgrades (processor, HDD, etc.) and it works perfectly but I am paranoid that something will happen to my "baby." :eek:

But regardless of that, how often have you replaced/upgraded your MacBooks? Just curious.
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I'm in High School.

My bar is five years or when Apple stops support--I.e., when it can no longer be upgraded to a newer OS.
 
1ce a year.

Laptops

12" G4 (still in use)-> late 2006 white macbook (still in use)-> 2009 MBP 15" -> Alienware M11x-> 12" G4(still in use, same as the first)-> late 2011 MBP-> MSI Dragon (my main laptop, coming soon)

Desktops
iMac G5 (being repaired)-> iMac intell late 2006-> PowerMac G4 Sawtooth (still in use)-> iMac intell (same as the first, needs new logicboard, was careless and desoldered the SATA port)-> iMac G5 (same as the first, being repaired)-> Custom AMD 8 core rig (my secondary desktop)-> PowerMac G5 Quad (my primary desktop,) soon to be an 8 core when I get another Quad and cluster them.
 
In Portugal, most are 3 year courses so I guess I'll never replace my Retina. I'm going for the final year of my second course now. I bought an iMac for the first one (Sound and Image) in '07 and still have it. Only "replaced" it last year with a Retina Macbook Pro in July. I hope this one stays with me for, at least, four to five years.
 
I'm still using the one I got in 2007, when I started college. Going into my senior year (long story with transferring, losing credits...really don't want to go into it) and I'll be purchasing a Retina model with Haswell. When it's released of course.
 
dastinger said:
In Portugal, most are 3 year courses so I guess I'll never replace my Retina. I'm going for the final year of my second course now. I bought an iMac for the first one (Sound and Image) in '07 and still have it. Only "replaced" it last year with a Retina Macbook Pro in July. I hope this one stays with me for, at least, four to five years.
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I am sure you eat every day Pasteis de Belem...:D . So tasty, I miss them... :D
 
I think you grossly overestimate how much money us college students have to spare on getting new Macbooks if you're wondering how often we replace it.

I'm not trying to sound like an ass, I apologize if I do, but you shouldn't be asking "how often do you replace", but rather, "How long have you had your laptop?" because most college students would be even lucky to own a Macbook.
 
Sony Vaio (i cheated on apple after my iBook G4 died)
MacBook Pro mid 2009
MacBook Pro retina

its not easy to be among informatic nerds as an apple user :(
 
Arcadia310 said:
I've had the 15 inch Retina since launch day last year and it's been running good, besides really strange performance hiccups when waking up from deep sleep. If battery life on the Haswell models is something crazy like double the old models, I'll be really tempted to upgrade, but I'm going to try and hold off.
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You might want to try this to wake it faster:

http://osxdaily.com/2013/01/21/mac-slow-wake-from-sleep-fix
 
sofianito said:
I am sure you eat every day Pasteis de Belem...:D . So tasty, I miss them... :D
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Ahah, I just don't because I live 300km away from where they are made (live in Porto). Still, they're a variation of a popular recipe we have.. they are just different and better but you can still get that small custard tarts everywhere.

Glad to see you liked them :D
 
Unless your rich I for one don't see people swapping machines too many times. Get a computer that work for your needs. Have a drop box account to sync your documents online (I can think of three friends in grad school who lost reports dt their windows laptop crashing (not saying macs don't crash but in that instance all were windows users). It'll last you 4 yrs no problem unless you switch majors and go to heavy video editing).

Jeeez I wish I had a MacBook Air with 12 hr battery life in undergrad. That would have been awesome. No hinting for a power plug in the library.
 
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