(September 26, 2016 at 8:23 am)Tiberius Wrote: In your opinion, maybe. However I have owned several non-Apple laptops in my life and none have been as durable, or have lasted longer than my MacBooks. My wife is currently using my 2009 MacBook Pro with all the original hardware and it works just as well as the day I got it. It might need a RAM upgrade soon, but that's easy enough (yes, it is user-serviceable despite what you claim).
So if planned obsolescence means it will last 7 years, I'm fine with that, and I'm also fine with the price tag.
User-serviceable means that you can replace the most common bits that wear out - in a laptop that's means the battery is the most important. Tell me can you buy a $40 battery from a store and install it, or do you need to give it to Apple so they can "service it" for you for $130? Worse still is the fact that Apple builds-in the batteries too, to further discourage user replacement. There's no valid reason to build it in, and plenty of good reasons not to. For example, you can use your laptop without needing a power source for twice as long if you take two batteries with you - whoops, can't do that with a Macbook.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
