OT - Selecting a Mac for development

[Lussier, Denis]

100% agree.    It's really nice to upgrade the older Macbooks yourself,
when needed.   I've done it myself several times.   My strong advise is to
be very careful when screwing back in those tiny little screws (don't
overtighten and make sure they are in straight).  It's very easy to
cross-thread and then strip them.   You can end up with screws that don't
ever seat properly and then they create sharp protusions on the bottom of
your laptop and ...

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <
Fabrizio.Giudici at tidalwave.it> wrote:

>
> My additional advice is that people need memory and disk (possibly SSD),
> but not necessarily the latest model and/or a retina display, even though
> it's cool. I've replaced by 4.5 years old macbook with a new model, but it
> is a late 2011 one. I have 16GB of RAM, quad core, I've manually upgraded
> the disk for a 512GB SSD, I've saved some bucks but above all it's still a
> laptop where I can replace things on my own, including the battery. Retina
> apart, I think I'm missing almost nothing (with the exception of USB 3). I
> hope that in the next three years (expected minimum lifetime of my current
> laptop) Apple will be able to provide ultra-slim and light stuff, but where
> you can change components - a computer for an engineer it's something that
> the engineer must be able to tweak into, IMO.
>
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