It’s been an expensive and confusing year for me. I started off with my trusty old Mid-2012 which was a month off turning 3 years old. Keyboard stopped working and after various attempts to fix it with an eBay part, I sold the Mac for parts.
I bought a £280 HP to do in the mean time whilst I saved up for a new Mac of my dreams. But I was so horrified by this I sold it the next day...
Then I borrowed an iPad mini from a friend. It went better than expected but as it was so old it could barely handle Word workloads.
Then another friend decided I could lend their Air 2. A great job vs the Mini but eventually I thought I’d like a serious machine again.
So I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad E470 after reading so much about their quality. But after a month Windows 10’s lack of integration with the Apple ecosystem I knew and loved was bothering me so I sold that and lost almost half its value....I was then told ‘oh, the e series is an exception to the quality’...
Went out and bought myself an iPad 2017 128GB as with iOS 11 it seemed a promising replacement. Though it’s sort of bothering me now with the small display and cramped screen real estate..
I’m just biting the bullet and buying a new MacBook Pro 13”. The base model. I need to take some money from my savings but at the end of the day I used my former Mac 365 days per year every year I had it. I don’t think I’d be happy with any other machine. And this time I’m forming out for Apple Care so that if anything like the keyboard fails this costly investment is safe for 3 years...if I had it on my old Mac I’d still be using it today.
It’s £1,249 here but my student discount puts that to £1,124.40. Apple Care is normally £229 but I can get it for £114.
I’m tempted by the 12” MacBook for its 256GB SSD but that seems to be it’s sole advantage.
Other than that... comes the hardest decision of all.... Silver or Space Grey hmmmm
I bought a £280 HP to do in the mean time whilst I saved up for a new Mac of my dreams. But I was so horrified by this I sold it the next day...
Then I borrowed an iPad mini from a friend. It went better than expected but as it was so old it could barely handle Word workloads.
Then another friend decided I could lend their Air 2. A great job vs the Mini but eventually I thought I’d like a serious machine again.
So I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad E470 after reading so much about their quality. But after a month Windows 10’s lack of integration with the Apple ecosystem I knew and loved was bothering me so I sold that and lost almost half its value....I was then told ‘oh, the e series is an exception to the quality’...
Went out and bought myself an iPad 2017 128GB as with iOS 11 it seemed a promising replacement. Though it’s sort of bothering me now with the small display and cramped screen real estate..
I’m just biting the bullet and buying a new MacBook Pro 13”. The base model. I need to take some money from my savings but at the end of the day I used my former Mac 365 days per year every year I had it. I don’t think I’d be happy with any other machine. And this time I’m forming out for Apple Care so that if anything like the keyboard fails this costly investment is safe for 3 years...if I had it on my old Mac I’d still be using it today.
It’s £1,249 here but my student discount puts that to £1,124.40. Apple Care is normally £229 but I can get it for £114.
I’m tempted by the 12” MacBook for its 256GB SSD but that seems to be it’s sole advantage.
Other than that... comes the hardest decision of all.... Silver or Space Grey hmmmm
